Chloris flagellifera

Chloris flagellifera is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native from Morocco in North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula to northwestern India.^[1]

Chloris flagellifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Genus:	Chloris
Species:	C. flagellifera
Binomial name
Chloris flagellifera (Nees) P.M.Peterson[1]
Synonyms[1]
Cynosurus ternatus Forssk. Eleusine arabica Hochst. ex Steud., pro syn. Eleusine caespitosa A.Rich. Eleusine compressa (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf. ex C.Chr. Eleusine flagellifera Nees Eleusine stolonifera R.Br., nom. nud. Ochthochloa compressa (Forssk.) Hilu Ochthochloa dactyloides Edgew. Panicum compressum Forssk.

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Christian Nees in 1842 as Eleusine flagellifera.^[2] It was transferred to the genus Chloris in 2015. It has a number of other synonyms in the genus Eleusine, including Eleusine caespitosa and Eleusine compressa.^[1] It has also been placed in the genus Ochthochloa,^[1] which is now considered a synonym of Chloris.^[3]