Loudetia

Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Species^[6][7]

• Loudetia angolensis - Angola
• Loudetia annua - tropical Africa
• Loudetia arundinacea - tropical Africa
• Loudetia cerata - Chad, Central African Republic
• Loudetia coarctata - tropical Africa
• Loudetia cuanzensis - Angola
• Loudetia demeusei - Congo Republic, Zaïre
• Loudetia densispica - central + southern Africa
• Loudetia echinulata - Central African Rep
• Loudetia esculenta - Sudan
• Loudetia filifolia - Madagascar, Eswatini, Mpumalanga
• Loudetia flammida - tropical Africa, South America
• Loudetia flavida - Oman, tropical + southern Africa
• Loudetia furtiva - Cameroon
• Loudetia hordeiformis - tropical Africa
• Loudetia jaegeriana - Sierra Leone
• Loudetia kagerensis - tropical Africa
• Loudetia lanata - southern Africa
• Loudetia migiurtina - Somalia
• Loudetia phragmitoides - tropical Africa
• Loudetia pratii - Central African Rep
• Loudetia simplex - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa
• Loudetia tisserantii - Central African Rep
• Loudetia togoensis - tropical Africa
• Loudetia vanderystii - Zaire, Congo Republic, Gabon

formerly included^[6]

Loudetia
Type specimen of Loudetia simplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Panicoideae
Tribe:	Tristachyideae
Genus:	Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud. 1854, conserved name not Hochst. ex A. Braun 1841
Type species
Loudetia elegans Hochst. ex A. Braun.[1]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya