title: Pentameris
text: # Pentameris
  
  Pentameris is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Africa, with a few species in Yemen and on certain islands in the Indian Ocean.
  
  A significant number of species are endemic to South Africa.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:
  
  * 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 dregeana Stapf – South Africa
  * Pentameris ecklonii (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder – South Africa
  * Pentameris elegans (Nees) Steud. – South Africa
  * Pentameris ellisii H.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 glacialis N.P.Barker – South Africa
  * Pentameris glandulosa (Schrad.) Nees – South Africa
  * Pentameris heptamera (Nees) Steud. – South Africa
  * Pentameris hirtiglumis N.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 in Indian 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 oreophila N.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 swartbergensis N.P.Barker – South Africa
  * Pentameris thuarii P.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 uniflora N.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
  
  ### Formerly included
  
  See Chaetobromus, Danthonia, Merxmuellera, Pseudopentameris, Tenaxia. Some formerly included species are:
  
  * Pentameris americana - Danthonia californica
  * Pentameris californica - Danthonia californica
  * Pentameris compressa - Danthonia compressa
  * Pentameris epilis - Danthonia sericea
  * Pentameris grandiflora - Merxmuellera grandiflora
  * Pentameris intermedia - Danthonia intermedia
  * Pentameris involucrata - Chaetobromus involucratus
  * Pentameris macrantha - Pseudopentameris macrantha
  * Pentameris obtusifolia - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
  * Pentameris provincialis - Danthonia alpina
  * Pentameris sericea - Danthonia sericea
  * Pentameris spicata - Danthonia spicata
  * Pentameris squarrosa - Pseudopentameris obtusifolia
  * Pentameris stricta - Tenaxia stricta
  * Pentameris thermalis - Danthonia spicata
  * Pentameris unispicata - Danthonia unispicata
  