Pennisetum

Pennisetum (}) là một chi thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo (Poaceae).

==Loài==
Chi "Pennisetum" gồm các loài:

- "Pennisetum alopecuroides" – Chinese fountaingrass, foxtail fountaingrass, swamp-foxtail – Australia, East + Southeast Asia
- "Pennisetum annuum" – Peru
- "Pennisetum articulare" – Marquesas
- "Pennisetum basedowii" – Australia
- "Pennisetum beckeroides" – Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum caffrum" – Madagascar, Réunion
- "Pennisetum chilense" – Chile, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia
- "Pennisetum clandestinum" – kikuyu grass – central + eastern Africa
- "Pennisetum complanatum" – Nicaraguan fountaingrass – Veracruz, Central America
- "Pennisetum crinitum" – Mexico
- "Pennisetum" × "cupreum" – New Guinea
- "Pennisetum distachyum" – Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala
- "Pennisetum divisum" – deserts from Mauritania to western India
- "Pennisetum domingense" – Cuba, Hispaniola
- "Pennisetum durum" – Mexico
- "Pennisetum exiguum" – Madagascar
- "Pennisetum flaccidum" – flaccid grass, Himalayan fountaingrass – Himalayas, Central Asia, China, Mongolia
- "Pennisetum flexile" – Kashmir
- "Pennisetum foermerianum" – Namibia
- "Pennisetum frutescens" – Paraguay, Argentina
- "Pennisetum glaucifolium" – Eritrea, Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum glaucum" – pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, horse millet, Indian millet, yellow bristlegrass
- "Pennisetum gracilescens" – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
- "Pennisetum henryanum" – Marquesas
- "Pennisetum hohenackeri" – Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, India, Nepal, Pakistan
- "Pennisetum hordeoides" – western + central Africa, India, Nepal, Myanmar
- "Pennisetum humile" – Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum intectum" – Peru, Ecuador
- "Pennisetum lanatum" – Afghanistan, northern India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Tibet
- "Pennisetum latifolium" – Uruguay fountaingrass – South America from Colombia to Uruguay
- "Pennisetum laxius" – Sahel in Africa
- "Pennisetum ledermannii" – Cameroon
- "Pennisetum longissimum" – China
- "Pennisetum longistylum" – Eritrea, Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum macrostachyum" – Pacific fountaingrass – Java, Borneo, Papuasia
- "Pennisetum macrourum" – African feather grass, bedding grass, waterside-reed – Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
- "Pennisetum massaicum" – Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- "Pennisetum mezianum" – Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia, Limpopo
- "Pennisetum mildbraedii" – Rwanda, Zaire, Uganda
- "Pennisetum monostigma" – Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, islands in Gulf of Guinea
- "Pennisetum montanum" – Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- "Pennisetum nervosum" – bentspike fountaingrass – South America; naturalized in Belize, Nicaragua, Mexico, California, Texas
- "Pennisetum nodiflorum" – central Africa
- "Pennisetum nubicum" – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia
- "Pennisetum occidentale" – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- "Pennisetum orientale" – white fountaingrass, Oriental pennisetum – North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Indian Subcontinent
- "Pennisetum pauperum" – Ecuador incl Galápagos
- "Pennisetum pedicellatum" – annual kyasuwa grass, deenanth grass, hairy fountaingrass – Cape Verde, Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia from Arabia to Vietnam
- "Pennisetum peruvianum" – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- "Pennisetum petiolare" – petioled fountaingrass – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
- "Pennisetum pirottae" – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
- "Pennisetum polystachion" – feather pennisetum, mission grass, thin Napier grass – Africa, southern Asia from Arabia to Vietnam, Indian Ocean islands
- "Pennisetum preslii" – from Mexico to Peru
- "Pennisetum procerum" – Uganda, Kenya
- "Pennisetum prolificum" – southern Mexico
- "Pennisetum pseudotriticoides" – Madagascar
- "Pennisetum pumilum" – Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum purpureum" – Napier grass, Uganda grass, elephant grass, barner grass, Merker grass – Africa, Aldabra, Arabian Pen; naturalized in parts of Asia, Australia, Americas, various islands
- "Pennisetum qianningense" – Sichuan, Yunnan
- "Pennisetum ramosum" – central + eastern Africa
- "Pennisetum rigidum" – northern Argentina
- "Pennisetum riparium" – East Africa
- "Pennisetum rupestre" – Colombia, Peru
- "Pennisetum sagittatum" – Peru, Bolivia
- "Pennisetum schweinfurthii" – Ethiopia, Sudan
- "Pennisetum setaceum" – tender fountain grass, crimson fountaingrass – northern Africa, southwestern Asia; naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, scattered places in Europe + Americas
- "Pennisetum shaanxiense" – China
- "Pennisetum sichuanense" – Sichuan, Yunnan
- "Pennisetum sieberianum" – Africa
- "Pennisetum sphacelatum" – Africa, Comoros
- "Pennisetum squamulatum" – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
- "Pennisetum stramineum" – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
- "Pennisetum tempisquense" – Costa Rica
- "Pennisetum thulinii" – Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum thunbergii" – Africa, Yemen
- "Pennisetum trachyphyllum" – central Africa
- "Pennisetum trisetum" – central Africa
- "Pennisetum tristachyum" – South America
- "Pennisetum uliginosum" – Ethiopia
- "Pennisetum unisetum" – Natal grass, silky grass – Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
- "Pennisetum villosum" – feathertop, long-style feathergrass, white foxtail – Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia; naturalized in New Zealand, Mediterranean, scattered places in Americas
- "Pennisetum violaceum" – Sahara, Sahel
- "Pennisetum weberbaueri" – Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
- "Pennisetum yemense" – Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea

- formerly included
numerous species now considered better suited to other genera, primarily "Cenchrus" but also a few in "Echinochloa" and "Setaria"