''Chimaerochloa'' is a genus of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...

n plants in the

grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. The genus name of ''Chimaerochloa'' is named after

Chimera (mythology) The Chimera ( or ), also Chimaera (''Chimæra'') (Ancient Greek: , ''Chímaira'' means 'she-goat'), according to Greek mythology, was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts from Lycia, Asia Minor. It is u ...

as Linder noted; "the grass takes an the appearance of different genera, depending on which character set is investigated. Thus, it can be regarded as a grass that changes its appearance, a chimaera". The genus was circumscribed by

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in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. Vol.97 (Issue 3) on page 346 in 2010.

Species

The only known species is ''Chimaerochloa archboldii''.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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References

Danthonioideae Endemic flora of New Guinea Grasses of Oceania Monotypic Poaceae genera {{Poaceae-stub