Centrolepis


Centrolepis is a genus of small herbaceous plants in the family Restionaceae known as thorn grass scales, with about 25 species native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and south-east Asia as far north as Hainan Dao. APG III system classifies this genus in the Centrolepidaceae family.
Centrolepis species are all tufted plants with narrow leaves from the base. Flowers are tiny and wind-pollinated, in highly condensed inflorescences enclosed between a pair of bracts that often have leaf-like points.
; Species
  • Centrolepis alepyroides Walp. - Avon + Darling in Western Australia
  • Centrolepis aristata Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
  • Centrolepis banksii Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia
  • Centrolepis caespitosa D.A.Cooke - Western Australia
  • Centrolepis cambodiana Hance - Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
  • Centrolepis cephaloformis Reader - Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria
  • Centrolepis ciliata Druce - New Zealand
  • Centrolepis curta D.A.Cooke - Western Australia
  • Centrolepis drummondiana Walp - Western Australia, possibly South Australia
  • Centrolepis eremica D.A.Cooke - Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory
  • Centrolepis exserta Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland
  • Centrolepis fascicularis Labill. - Australia, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
  • Centrolepis glabra Hieron. - New Zealand South Island, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
  • Centrolepis humillima F.Muell. ex Benth. - Western Australia
  • Centrolepis inconspicua W.Fitzg. - Avon + Darling in Western Australia
  • Centrolepis milleri M.D.Barrett & D.D.Sokoloff - Western Australia
  • Centrolepis monogyna Benth. - Tasmania
  • Centrolepis muscoides Hieron. - Tasmania
  • Centrolepis mutica Hieron. - Darling in Western Australia
  • Centrolepis pallida Cheeseman - New Zealand
  • Centrolepis pedderensis W.M.Curtis - Tasmania
  • Centrolepis philippinensis Merr. - Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  • Centrolepis pilosa Hieron. - Western Australia
  • Centrolepis polygyna Hieron. - Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
  • Centrolepis racemosa D.D.Sokoloff & Remizowa - Northern Territory
  • Centrolepis strigosa Roem. & Schult. - Australia, New Zealand;