Pentameris

Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.

A significant number of species are endemic to South Africa.

Species
, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: • Pentameris acinosa (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris airoides (Nees) Steud. – South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia

• Pentameris alticola (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris ampla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris andringitrensis (A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder – Madagascar

• Pentameris argentea (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris aristidoides (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris aristifolia (Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris aspera (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris aurea (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris barbata (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris basutorum (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris borussica (K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

• Pentameris calcicola (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris capensis (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris capillaris (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris caulescens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris chippindalliae (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – Tanzania

• Pentameris chrysurus (K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Tanzania

• Pentameris cirrhulosa (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris clavata (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris colorata (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris curvifolia (Schrad.) Nees – South Africa

• Pentameris densifolia (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris dentata (L.f.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris dolichochaeta (S.M.Phillips) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia

• Pentameris dregeana Stapf – South Africa

• Pentameris ecklonii (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris elegans (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris ellisii H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris eriostoma (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris exserta (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris galpinii (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris glacialis N.P.Barker – South Africa

• Pentameris glandulosa (Schrad.) Nees – South Africa

• Pentameris heptamera (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris hirtiglumis N.P.Barker – South Africa

• Pentameris holciformis (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris horrida (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris humbertii (A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder – Madagascar

• Pentameris insularis (Hemsl.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Amsterdam I + St. Paul I (both in Indian Ocean)

• Pentameris lima (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris longiglumis (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris longipes (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris macrocalycina (Steud.) Schweick. – South Africa

• Pentameris malouinensis (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris microphylla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris minor (F.Ballard & C.E.Hubb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

• Pentameris montana (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris natalensis (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eswatini

• Pentameris oreodoxa (Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris oreophila N.P.Barker – South Africa

• Pentameris pallescens (Schrad.) Nees – South Africa

• Pentameris pallida (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris patula (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris pholiuroides (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris pictigluma (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Yemen, Sudan, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

• Pentameris praecox (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – Lesotho

• Pentameris pseudopallescens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris pungens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris pusilla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris pyrophila (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris reflexa (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris rigidissima (Pilg. ex H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris rosea (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris rupestris (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris scabra (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

• Pentameris scandens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris setifolia (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho

• Pentameris swartbergensis N.P.Barker – South Africa

• Pentameris thuarii P.Beauv. – South Africa

• Pentameris tomentella (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris tortuosa (Trin.) Nees – South Africa

• Pentameris trifida (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris triseta (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris trisetoides (Hochst. ex Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia

• Pentameris tysonii (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris uniflora N.P.Barker – South Africa

• Pentameris velutina (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris veneta (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa

• Pentameris viscidula (Nees) Steud. – South Africa

Formerly included
See Chaetobromus, Danthonia, Merxmuellera, Pseudopentameris, Tenaxia. Some formerly included species are: • Pentameris americana - Danthonia californica

• Pentameris californica - Danthonia californica

• Pentameris compressa - Danthonia compressa

• Pentameris epilis  - Danthonia sericea

• Pentameris grandiflora - Merxmuellera grandiflora

• Pentameris intermedia - Danthonia intermedia

• Pentameris involucrata - Chaetobromus involucratus

• Pentameris macrantha - Pseudopentameris macrantha

• Pentameris obtusifolia - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia

• Pentameris provincialis - Danthonia alpina

• Pentameris sericea - Danthonia sericea

• Pentameris spicata - Danthonia spicata

• Pentameris squarrosa - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia

• Pentameris stricta - Tenaxia stricta

• Pentameris thermalis - Danthonia spicata

• Pentameris unispicata - Danthonia unispicata