''Chionachne'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of Asian, Australian, and

Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises the ...

n plants in the grass family.

Species

* '' Chionachne biaurita'' Hack. -

Luzon Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...

* '' Chionachne cyathopoda'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. -

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 Torr ...

, northern Australia * ''

Chionachne gigantea ''Chionachne'' is a genus of Asian, Australian, and Papuasian plants in the grass family. Species * '' Chionachne biaurita'' Hack. - Luzon * '' Chionachne cyathopoda'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - New Guinea, northern Australia * '' Chionac ...

'' (J.Koenig) Veldkamp -

Indian Subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a list of the physiographic regions of the world, physiographical region in United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern Asia, Southern Asia. It is situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian O ...

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

* '' Chionachne hubbardiana'' Henrard -

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

, Northern Territories,

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

, Lesser Sunda Islands * '' Chionachne javanica'' (Henrard) Clayton - Java, Lesser Sunda Islands * '' Chionachne macrophylla'' (Benth.) Clayton - Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Is, Bismarck Arch * '' Chionachne massiei'' Balansa -

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand * '' Chionachne punctata'' (R.Br.) Jannink - Indochina, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Philippines * '' Chionachne semiteres'' (Benth.) Henrard - India, MyanmarGrassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
/ref> ; formerly included see '' Cleistochloa'' * ''Chionachne sclerachne - Cleistochloa sclerachne''

References

Poaceae genera Panicoideae Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) {{Panicoideae-stub

Species

See also

References