What is "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 the now the correct name.

1. Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
2. Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
3. Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
4. Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
5. Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
6. Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
7. Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
8. Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
9. Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
10. Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
11. Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
12. Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
13. Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus

see Orinus

• Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
• Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii