Stenotaphrum

Stenotaphrum is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family.

Stenotaphrum
St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Supertribe:	Panicodae
Tribe:	Paniceae
Subtribe:	Cenchrinae
Genus:	Stenotaphrum Trin.[1]
Type species
Stenotaphrum glabrum (syn of S. dimidiatum)[2] Trin.
Synonyms[2]
Diastemenanthe Desv. Ophiurinella Desv.

The name is derived from the Greek words στενός (stenós), meaning "narrow", and τάφρος (táphros), meaning "trench". It refers to cavities in the raceme axis.^[3][4]

Species^[2][5]

• Stenotaphrum clavigerum Stapf – Aldabra Island and Assumption Island (both parts of Seychelles)
• Stenotaphrum dimidiatum (L.) Brongn. – Pembagrass – Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar + other Indian Ocean islands, Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Thailand, Pen Malaysia
• Stenotaphrum helferi Munro ex Hook.f. – Myanmar, Thailand, Pen Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan
• Stenotaphrum micranthum (Desv.) C.E.Hubb – Tanzania, Queensland; various islands of Indian + Pacific Oceans + South China Sea
• Stenotaphrum oostachyum Baker – Madagascar^[6]
• Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze – St. Augustine grass, Charleston grass, "buffalo grass" – Americas from Virginia + California to Uruguay^[3][7]
• Stenotaphrum unilaterale Baker – Madagascar^[6]

formerly included^[2]

see Parapholis

• Stenotaphrum compressum – Parapholis filiformis