Polytoca is a genus of Indomalayan and Australasian plants in the grass family.

Species

11 species are accepted.

• Polytoca biaurita – Philippines (Luzon)

• Polytoca cyathopoda – New Guinea and northern Australia

• Polytoca digitata (L.f.) Druce – southern China, eastern Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Indochina, Philippines, Java, and New Guinea

• Polytoca gigantea – Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, and Java

• Polytoca hubbardiana – eastern Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, and northern Australia

• Polytoca javanica – eastern Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands

• Polytoca macrophylla – Maluku and Papuasia

• Polytoca massiei – Indochina and Hainan

• Polytoca punctata – Indochina, Philippines, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands

• Polytoca semiteres – western and southern India and Myanmar

• Polytoca wallichiana (Nees ex Steud.) Benth. – eastern Himalayas, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam

Formerly included

See Cleistochloa and Trilobachne

• Cleistochloa sclerachne (as Polytoca sclerachne )

• Trilobachne cookei (as Polytoca cookei )

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