Cleistogenes

Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family.

The name Cleistogenes was for a time considered an invalidly published name synonymous with Kengia, but revisions to the Code of Nomenclature have reversed this situation. Cleistogenes is now the correct name.


 * Species
 * Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
 * Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
 * Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
 * Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
 * Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
 * Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
 * Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
 * Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
 * Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
 * Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
 * Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
 * Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
 * Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus

see Orinus
 * formerly included
 * Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
 * Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii