Polytoca

Polytoca is a genus of Indomalayan and Australasian plants in the grass family.^[2][3][4][1]

Polytoca
Polytoca cyathopoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Andropogonodae
Tribe:	Andropogoneae
Subtribe:	Chionachninae
Genus:	Polytoca R.Br.
Synonyms[1]
Chionachne R.Br. Cyathorhachis Nees ex Steud. Sclerachne R.Br.

Species

11 species are accepted.^[1]

• Polytoca biaurita (Hack.) Mabb. – Philippines (Luzon)
• Polytoca cyathopoda (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey – New Guinea and northern Australia
• Polytoca digitata (L.f.) Druce – southern China, eastern Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Indochina, Philippines, Java, and New Guinea
• Polytoca gigantea (J.Koenig) Mabb. – Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and Java
• Polytoca hubbardiana (Henrard) Mabb. – eastern Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, and northern Australia
• Polytoca javanica Henrard – eastern Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands
• Polytoca macrophylla Benth. – Maluku and Papuasia
• Polytoca massiei (Balansa) Schenck ex Henrard – Indochina and Hainan
• Polytoca punctata (R.Br.) Hook.f. – Indochina, Philippines, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands
• Polytoca semiteres Benth. ex Hook.f. – western and southern India and Myanmar
• Polytoca wallichiana (Nees ex Steud.) Benth. – eastern Himalayas, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam

Formerly included

See Cleistochloa and Trilobachne^[5]

• Cleistochloa sclerachne (F.M.Bailey) C.E.Hubb. (as Polytoca sclerachne (F.M.Bailey) F.M.Bailey)
• Trilobachne cookei (Stapf) Schenck ex Henrard (as Polytoca cookei Stapf)