Jouvea is a Latin American genus of coastal plants in the grass family.

It grows on mud flats and coastal sand dunes from northern Mexico to Ecuador.

[2][4][5][6] Jouvea's closest relative in the subfamily Chloridoideae is likely Monanthochloe; both share the characteristic of distichously arranged leaves, and both are dioecious.

[2] Jouvea was named for the French botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810–1883)[7]

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