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Cottea

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Cottea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Eragrostideae
Subtribe: Cotteinae
Genus: Cottea
Kunth[1]
Species:
C. pappophoroides
Binomial name
Cottea pappophoroides

Cottea is a genus of plants in the grass family native to North and South America. There is only one known species, Cottea pappophoroides, native to the southwestern United States (southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas), Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.[2][3][4][5] (The name Cottea sarmentosa was coined in 1854 for a species now known as Enneapogon desvauxii.[4])

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