title: Cleistogenes
text: # Cleistogenes
  
  Cleistogenes is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family.
  
  The name Cleistogenes was for a time considered an invalidly published name synonymous with Kengia, but revisions to the Code of Nomenclature have reversed this situation. Cleistogenes is now the correct name.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Cleistogenes caespitosa Keng - China
  * Cleistogenes festucacea Honda - China
  * Cleistogenes gatacrei (Stapf) Bor - Afghanistan, Pakistan
  * Cleistogenes hackelii (Honda) Honda - China, Japan, Korea
  * Cleistogenes hancei Keng - China, Primorye
  * Cleistogenes kitagawae Honda - Hebei, Liaoning, Mongolia, Russian Far East, Siberia
  * Cleistogenes mucronata Keng f. - China
  * Cleistogenes nedoluzhkoi Tzvelev - Primorye
  * Cleistogenes polyphylla Keng f. - China
  * Cleistogenes ramiflora Keng f. & C.P.Wang - Inner Mongolia
  * Cleistogenes serotina (L.) Keng - Eurasia from Spain to Kazakhstan
  * Cleistogenes songorica (Roshev.) Ohwi - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  * Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin. ex Ledeb.) Keng - China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Caucasus
  
  ## formerly included
  
  see Orinus
  
  * Cleistogenes kokonorica - Orinus kokonorica
  * Cleistogenes thoroldii - Orinus thoroldii
  