title: Ctenium
text: # Ctenium
  
  Ctenium is a genus of African and American plants in the grass family.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood - United States from Texas to New Jersey
  * Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner - Bahia
  * Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Paraguay
  * Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. - Brazil
  * Ctenium canescens Benth. West Africa
  * Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll - Brazil
  * Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth - Brazil, Suriname
  * Ctenium concinnum Nees - Africa incl Madagascar
  * Ctenium concissum Swallen - Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia
  * Ctenium crista-castrensis (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen - United States, Canada
  * Ctenium elegans Kunth - Africa
  * Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. - Georgia, Florida
  * Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. - central Africa
  * Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope - Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia
  * Ctenium newtonii Hack. - Africa
  * Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth - central + southern Mexico
  * Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen - western Mexico
  * Ctenium polystachyum Balansa - Brazil, Paraguay
  * Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton - Guinea, Liberia
  * Ctenium villosum Berhaut - West Africa
  
  ## formerly included
  
  see Dactyloctenium Enteropogon Tetrapogon
  
  * Ctenium digitatum - Enteropogon dolichostachyus
  * Ctenium indicum - Tetrapogon tenellus
  * Ctenium nukaviense - Dactyloctenium aegyptium
  * Ctenium rupestre - Enteropogon rupestris
  * Ctenium sechellense - Enteropogon sechellensis
  