Chasmopodium

Chasmopodium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.^[1][2][3]

Species^[4][5]

• Chasmopodium afzelii (Hack.) Stapf – Sierra Leone, Togo
• Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf – Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Sudan, Angola

Formerly included^[4][5]

• Chasmopodium purpurascens - synonym of Rottboellia purpurascens

Chasmopodium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Andropogonodae
Tribe:	Andropogoneae
Subtribe:	Rottboelliinae
Genus:	Chasmopodium Stapf
Type species
Chasmopodium caudatum (Hack.) Stapf

See also

• List of Poaceae genera