- Chloris (plant)
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Chloris 
Chloris virgata Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Chloridoideae Genus: Chloris
Sw.Species 50-60 - see text
Chloris is a genus of grasses which are known generally as windmill grass or finger grass.
These grasses are found worldwide, but especially in the tropical and subtropical regions, and more often in the Southern Hemisphere. Grasses of this genus are variable in morphology, but in general the plants are less than half a meter in height and they bear inflorescences shaped like umbels, with several plumes lined with rows of spikelets. The genus was named for Chloris of Greek myth, a figure associated with flowers and spring.
Species include:
- Chloris andropogonoides - slimspike windmill grass
- Chloris barbata - swollen windmill grass
- Chloris ciliata - fringed windmill grass
- Chloris cubensis - Cuban windmill grass
- Chloris cucullata - hooded windmill grass
- Chloris divaricata - spreading windmill grass
- Chloris elata - tall windmill grass
- Chloris gayana - Rhodes grass
- Chloris pectinata - comb windmill grass
- Chloris pycnothrix - spiderweb chloris
- Chloris radiata - radiate fingergrass
- Chloris sagraeana - roadside windmill grass
- Chloris submutica - Mexican windmill grass
- Chloris texensis - Texas windmill grass
- Chloris truncata - Australian fingergrass, black windmill grass
- Chloris ventricosa - Australian windmill grass, plump windmill grass
- Chloris verticillata - tumble windmill grass
- Chloris virgata - feather fingergrass
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