Chloris Sw., Prodr. 1: 25. 1788 sec. Soreng & al. 2015
- =Chlorostis Raf., Princ. Fond. Somiol.: 26, 29. 1814 ["1813"] syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Actinochloris Steud., Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 2) 1: 352. 1840 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Apogon Steud., Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 2) 1: 352. 1840 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Geopogon Steud., Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 2) 1: 353. 1840 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Phacellaria Willd. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 2) 2: 343. 1841 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Chloroides Fisch. ex Regel, Index Sem. (St. Petersburg): 28. 1863 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Agrostomia Cerv. in Naturaleza (Mexico City) 1: 345. 1870 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Heterolepis Ehrenb. ex Boiss., Fl. Orient. 5: 554. 1884 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Chloris subg. Pterochloris A. Camus in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 97: 227. 1950 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995
- =Pterochloris (A. Camus) A. Camus in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 29: 349. 1957 syn. sec. Valdés Reyna & Dávila 1995