Genus of plants
Pentameris is agenus of plants in thegrass family, native primarily toAfrica, with a few species inYemen and on certain islands in theIndian Ocean.[3][4][2]
A significant number of species areendemic toSouth Africa.[5]
As of April 2023[update],Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[6]
- Pentameris acinosa(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder –South Africa
- Pentameris airoides(Nees) Steud. – South Africa,Lesotho,Namibia
- Pentameris alticola(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris ampla(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris andringitrensis(A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder –Madagascar
- Pentameris argentea(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris aristidoides(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris aristifolia(Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris aspera(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris aurea(Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris barbata(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris basutorum(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris borussica(K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder –Ethiopia,Kenya,Uganda,Tanzania
- Pentameris calcicola(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris capensis(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris capillaris(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris caulescens(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris chippindalliae(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – Tanzania
- Pentameris chrysurus(K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Tanzania
- Pentameris cirrhulosa(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris clavata(Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris colorata(Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris curvifolia(Schrad.) Nees – South Africa
- Pentameris densifolia(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris dentata(L.f.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris dolichochaeta(S.M.Phillips) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia
- Pentameris dregeanaStapf – South Africa
- Pentameris ecklonii(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris elegans(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris ellisiiH.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris eriostoma(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris exserta(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris galpinii(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris glacialisN.P.Barker – South Africa
- Pentameris glandulosa(Schrad.) Nees – South Africa
- Pentameris heptamera(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris hirtiglumisN.P.Barker – South Africa
- Pentameris holciformis(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris horrida(Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris humbertii(A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder –Madagascar
- Pentameris insularis(Hemsl.) Galley & H.P.Linder –Amsterdam I +St. Paul I (both inIndian Ocean)
- Pentameris lima(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris longiglumis(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris longipes(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris macrocalycina(Steud.) Schweick. – South Africa
- Pentameris malouinensis(Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris microphylla(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris minor(F.Ballard & C.E.Hubb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Pentameris montana(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris natalensis(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania,Malawi,Zimbabwe,Eswatini
- Pentameris oreodoxa(Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris oreophilaN.P.Barker – South Africa
- Pentameris pallescens(Schrad.) Nees – South Africa
- Pentameris pallida(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris patula(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris pholiuroides(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris pictigluma(Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder –Yemen,Sudan,Rwanda,Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
- Pentameris praecox(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – Lesotho
- Pentameris pseudopallescens(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris pungens(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris pusilla(Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris pyrophila(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris reflexa(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris rigidissima(Pilg. ex H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris rosea(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris rupestris(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris scabra(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
- Pentameris scandens(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris setifolia(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa, Lesotho
- Pentameris swartbergensisN.P.Barker – South Africa
- Pentameris thuariiP.Beauv. – South Africa
- Pentameris tomentella(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris tortuosa(Trin.) Nees – South Africa
- Pentameris trifida(Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris triseta(Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris trisetoides(Hochst. ex Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder – Ethiopia
- Pentameris tysonii(Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris unifloraN.P.Barker – South Africa
- Pentameris velutina(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris veneta(H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
- Pentameris viscidula(Nees) Steud. – South Africa
SeeChaetobromus,Danthonia,Merxmuellera,Pseudopentameris,Tenaxia. Some formerly included species are:
