Lasiacis (smallcane) is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, found in the Americas from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina.Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf 1864. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 551-552 as Panicum section LasiacisGrassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Species 15 species are accepted. Lasiacis anomala Hitchc. - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia Lasiacis divaricata (L.) Hitchc. - widespread from Mexico and Florida south to Argentina Lasiacis grisebachii (Nash) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Puerto Rico Lasiacis ligulata Hitchc. & Chase - South America, West Indies Lasiacis linearis Swallen - Central America, Chiapas Lasiacis maculata (Aubl.) Urb. - widespread from Mexico and Cuba south to Argentina Lasiacis nigra Davidse - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America Lasiacis oaxacensis (Steud.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Jamaica, Hispaniola Lasiacis procerrima (Hack.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America Lasiacis rhizophora (E.Fourn.) Hitchc. ex Chase - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, Greater Antilles Lasiacis rugelii (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola, Cuba Lasiacis ruscifolia (Kunth) Hitchc. ex Chase - Florida,Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map, Lasiacis ruscifolia Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies Lasiacis scabrior Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America Lasiacis sloanei (Griseb.) Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, West Indies Lasiacis standleyi Hitchc. - Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America
formerly included
see Acroceras Lasiacis excavata - Acroceras excavatum
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