| cutgrasses | |
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| Leersia hexandra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Oryzoideae |
| Tribe: | Oryzeae |
| Subtribe: | Oryzinae |
| Genus: | Leersia Sw. 1788 not Hedw. ex Batsch 1802 (moss in family Encalyptaceae) |
| Type species | |
| Leersia oryzoides | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Leersia is a genus of plants in the grass family which includes species known generally as cutgrasses.[2][3]
The genus is widespread across many countries on all the inhabited continents.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
It was named for the German botanist Johann Daniel Leers (1727-1774).[12]
- Species[1]
- Leersia angustifolia Prodoehl - Sudan
- Leersia denudata Launert - from Kenya to Cape Province
- Leersia drepanothrix Stapf - from Guinea to Uganda
- Leersia friesii Melderis - from Uganda to Botswana
- Leersia hexandra Sw. - Africa, Eurasia, Australian, North + South America, various islands
- Leersia japonica (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
- Leersia lenticularis Michx. - central + eastern USA
- Leersia ligularis Trin. - Latin America + West Indies from Coahuila to Paraguay
- Leersia monandra Sw. - Texas, Florida, Mexico, West Indies
- Leersia nematostachya Launert - Cameroon, Angola, Zambia
- Leersia oncothrix C.E.Hubb. - Zambia
- Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw. - Eurasia (from Azores to Primorye), North America (Canada, USA, northeastern Mexico)
- Leersia perrieri (A.Camus) Launert - Madagascar
- Leersia sayanuka Ohwi - China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam
- Leersia stipitata Bor - Thailand
- Leersia tisserantii (A.Chev.) Launert - from Guinea to Namibia
- Leersia triandra C.E.Hubb. - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cameroon
- Leersia virginica Willd. - eastern Canada, eastern + central USA
- formerly included[1]
see Arthraxon Digitaria Hygroryza Maltebrunia Megastachya
- Leersia aristata - Hygroryza aristata
- Leersia digitaria - Digitaria ciliaris
- Leersia disticha - Megastachya mucronata
- Leersia hispida - Arthraxon hispidus
- Leersia latifolia - Maltebrunia leersioides
