Rottboellia
Rottboellia is a genus of African, Asian, and Australian plants in the grass family.
The genus was named in honour of Danish botanist Christen Friis Rottbøll.
Species
24 species are accepted.- Rottboellia afraurita – tropical Africa
- Rottboellia aurita – southeastern Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and central Brazil and Bolivia to northeastern Argentina
- Rottboellia balansae – Bolivia, west-central Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina
- Rottboellia campestris – central and southeastern United States
- Rottboellia cancellata – Bangka, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Rottboellia clarkei – India and Myanmar
- Rottboellia cochinchinensis Clayton - Africa, Asia, Australia
- Rottboellia coelorachis G.Forst. - New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Rottboellia geminata – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and southeastern Borneo
- Rottboellia glandulosa – Indochina, Malesia, and New Guinea
- Rottboellia goalparensis Bor - Assam
- Rottboellia helferi – Indochina and Peninsular Malaysia
- Rottboellia impressa – western Cuba
- Rottboellia laevispica Keng - Anhui, Jiangsu
- Rottboellia lepidura – Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique
- Rottboellia paradoxa de Koning & Sosef - Philippines
- Rottboellia parodiana – Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
- Rottboellia purpurascens Robyns - tropical Africa
- Rottboellia rottboellioides – Philippines, New Guinea, and northern and eastern Australia
- Rottboellia rugosa – south-central and southeastern United States from Texas to New Jersey
- Rottboellia selloana – southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay
- Rottboellia striata – central Himalayas to Indochina and south-central China
- Rottboellia tessellata – southeastern United States, from Louisiana to Florida and Georgia
- Rottboellia tuberculosa – Cuba and southeastern United States
Numerous species now considered better suited to other genera: Chasmopodium, Coelorachis, Elionurus, Eremochloa, Festuca, Glyphochloa, Hainardia, Hemarthria, Henrardia, Heteropholis, Ischaemum, Lasiurus, Lolium, Loxodera, Manisuris, Mnesithea, Muhlenbergia, Ophiuros, Oropetium, Parapholis, Phacelurus, Pholiurus, Ratzeburgia, Rhytachne, Schizachyrium, Spartina, Stenotaphrum, Thaumastochloa, Urelytrum and Xerochloa.