Parodiophyllochloa is a genus of Latin American plants in the grass family.Morrone, O., S. S. Denham, S. S. Aliscioni & F. O. Zuloaga. 2008. Parodiophyllochloa, a new genus segregated from Panicum (Paniceae, Poaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Systematic Botany 33(1): 66–76.
The genus name of Parodiophyllochloa is in honour of Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi (1895–1966), an Argentinian botanist and agricultural engineer, professor of botany in Buenos Aires and La Plata with a focus on South American grasses.
SpeciesKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Parodiophyllochloa cordovensis - from northern Mexico to northern Argentina Parodiophyllochloa missiona - Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina Parodiophyllochloa ovulifera - tropical South America Parodiophyllochloa pantricha - tropical South + Central America Parodiophyllochloa penicillata - Brazil Parodiophyllochloa rhizogona - Brazil, northeastern Argentina
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