Crypsis (genus)

pricklegrass
Crypsis alopecuroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Chloridoideae
Genus:	Crypsis Ait.
Type species
Crypsis aculeata (L.) Ait.
Synonyms
Pallasia Scop. 1777, rejected name not L.f. 1782 nor L'Hér. ex Aiton 1789 nor Klotzsch 1853 Antitragus Gaertn. Heleochloa Host ex Roem. Raddia Mazziari 1834, illegitimate homonym not Bertol. 1819 nor DC. 1824 Ceytosis Munro Torgesia Bornm.

Crypsis is an African and Eurasian plant in the grass samily sometimes referred to as pricklegrass.

These are annual grasses with short leaves. A few species are invasive weeds outside their native ranges.

see Muhlenbergia Munroa Phleum Rhizocephalus Sporobolus Urochondra

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