Balsamscale Grass

Lemon-scented perennials (in ours). Inflorescence a single raceme, terminal or axillary and sometimes gathered into a false panicle. Racemes flexuous; internodes columnar to subclavate, strongly oblique at the summit, neither crater-like nor scarious-rimmed. Sessile spikelet: callus often large; lower glume laterally 2-keeled, the keels ciliately fringed and often with an oil-streak on the inner side, not ridged, usually 2-fid; upper glume awnless; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma entire and awnless. Pedicellate spikelet well-developed, awnless or shortly aristate.

Elionurus is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and Neotropical plants in the grass family.

Species Elionurus barbiculmis - Mexico, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico Elionurus bilinguis - Brazil Elionurus ciliaris - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); West Africa Elionurus citreus - Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands Elionurus elegans - West Africa Elionurus euchaetus - Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso Elionurus hensii - Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola Elionurus hirtifolius - western + central Africa Elionurus lividus - Paraguay Elionurus muticus - Africa, Yemen, South America Elionurus planifolius - South America Elionurus platypus - western + central Africa Elionurus royleanus - Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Sahara, East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, India Elionurus tripsacoides - Latin America (from Mexico to Paraguay); eastern + southern Africa Elionurus tristis - Madagascar formerly included

see Bothriochloa Lasiurus Loxodera Phacelurus Schizachyrium Urelytrum

Elionurus agropyroides - Urelytrum agropyroides Elionurus dubius - Schizachyrium tenerum Elionurus gabonensis - Phacelurus gabonensis Elionurus hirsutus - Lasiurus scindicus Elionurus ledermannii - Loxodera ledermannii Elionurus pertusus - Bothriochloa pertusa