''Oxyrhachis'' 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
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 Poaceae, grass family. The only known species is ''Oxyrhachis gracillima'', native to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Madagascar, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Province.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.]
References
Panicoideae
Flora of Africa
Monotypic Poaceae genera
Taxa named by John Gilbert Baker
Taxa named by Charles Edward Hubbard
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