''Lasiurus'' 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 ...

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

n and

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

n plants in the grass family,

Poaceae 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 ...

, found primarily in arid regions. The only known species is ''Lasiurus scindicus'', native to drier regions of northern

and southwestern

, from

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...

and

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

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Loxodera ''Loxodera'' is a genus of African plants in the grass family.Launert, Georg Oskar Edmund. 1963. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, sér. 2 37: 80-82 ; Species * '' Loxodera bovonei'' (Chiov.) Launert - Zaïre, Zambia * '' Loxodera caespitosa'' ...

'' * ''Lasiurus epectinatus'' – '' Loxodera caespitosa'' * ''Lasiurus maitlandii'' – '' Loxodera ledermannii''

Names in other languages

*Hindi :Sevan *Rajasthani : Lilon

References

Panicoideae Bunchgrasses of Africa Bunchgrasses of Asia Flora of North Africa Flora of Western Asia Grasses of India Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier {{Poaceae-stub