What is "gastridium"

Gastridium is a small but widespread genus of African and Eurasian plants in the grass family. These grasses are sometimes called nit grass.

1. Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C.E.Hubb. - Africa, southern Europe, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula
2. Gastridium ventricosum (Gouan) Schinz & Thell - Mediterranean and nearby regions from Great Britain to Cape Verde to Caucasus

see Triplachne

• Gastridium littorale - Triplachne nitens
• Gastridium nitens - Triplachne nitens
• Gastridium triaristatum - Triplachne nitens

Gastridium is a subgenus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the genus Conus, family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.

In the latest classification of the family Conidae by Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015), Gastridium has become a subgenus of Conus as Conus (Gastridium) represented as Conus Linnaeus, 1758