What is "centrolepis"

Centrolepis is a genus of small herbaceous plants in the family Centrolepidaceae known as thorn grass scales, with about 25 species native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and south-east Asia as far north as Hainan Dao.

Centrolepis species are all tufted plants with narrow leaves from the base. Flowers are tiny and wind-pollinated, in highly condensed inflorescences enclosed between a pair of bracts that often have leaf-like points.

1. Centrolepis alepyroides (Nees) Walp. - Avon + Darling in Western Australia
2. Centrolepis aristata (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
3. Centrolepis banksii (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia
4. Centrolepis caespitosa D.A.Cooke - Western Australia
5. Centrolepis cambodiana Hance - Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
6. Centrolepis cephaloformis Reader - Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria
7. Centrolepis ciliata (Hook.f.) Druce - New Zealand (North & South Is., Auckland Islands, Campbell Island)
8. Centrolepis curta D.A.Cooke - Western Australia
9. Centrolepis drummondiana (Nees) Walp - Western Australia, possibly South Australia
10. Centrolepis eremica D.A.Cooke - Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory
11. Centrolepis exserta (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. - Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland
12. Centrolepis fascicularis Labill. - Australia (all 6 states but not NT), New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand (recorded once)
13. Centrolepis glabra (F.Muell. ex Sond.) Hieron. - New Zealand South Island, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
14. Centrolepis humillima F.Muell. ex Benth. - Western Australia
15. Centrolepis inconspicua W.Fitzg. - Avon + Darling in Western Australia
16. Centrolepis monogyna (Hook.f.) Benth. - Tasmania
17. Centrolepis muscoides (Hook.f.) Hieron. - Tasmania
18. Centrolepis mutica (R.Br.) Hieron. - Darling in Western Australia
19. Centrolepis pallida (Hook.f.) Cheeseman - New Zealand (North & South Islands, Auckland Islands, Campbell Island)
20. Centrolepis pedderensis W.M.Curtis - Tasmania
21. Centrolepis philippinensis Merr. - Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea
22. Centrolepis pilosa Hieron. - Western Australia
23. Centrolepis polygyna (R.Br.) Hieron. - Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales
24. Centrolepis racemosa D.D.Sokoloff & Remizowa - Northern Territory
25. Centrolepis strigosa (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. - Australia (all 6 states but not NT), New Zealand;