Kingdom/Regno: Plantae (Plants/Piante)
Subkingdom/Sottoregno: Tracheobionta (Vascular plants/Piante vascolari)
Superdivision/Superdivisione: Spermatophyta (Seed plants/Piante con semi)
Division/Divisione: Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants/Piante con fiori)
Class/Classe: Liliopsida (Monocotyledons/Monocotiledoni)
Subclass/Sottoclasse: Commelinidae
Order/Ordine: Cyperales
Family/Famiglia: Poaceae (Grass family)
Genus/Genere: Zoysia Willd.

Species/Specie:
1) Zoysia japonica Steud. [Syn. pl. glumac. 1:414. 1854] (= Osterdamia japonica (Steud.) Hitchc.) Korean lawn grass Shiba
2) Zoysia macrantha Desv. [Opusc. sci. phys. nat. 54; Mém. Soc. Agric. Angers 1:158. 1831] Prickly couch
3) Zoysia macrostachya Franch. & Sav. [Enum. pl. Jap. 2:187. 1877] Oni-shiba
4) Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr. [Blumea 26:172. 1980] (= Agrostis matrella L.) (= Osterdamia matrella (L.) Kuntze) (= Zoysia pungens Willd.) Korean grass Hierba Manila Harishiba
5) Zoysia minima (Colenso) Zotov [Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73:237. 1943] (= Gaimardia minima Colenso)
6) Zoysia pauciflora Mez [Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17:145. 1921]
7) Zoysia pungens Willd. [Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 3:441. 1801] (= Agrostis matrella L.) (= Osterdamia matrella (L.) Kuntze) (= Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr.)
8) Zoysia sinica Hance [J. Bot. 7:168. 1869]
9) Zoysia tenuifolia auct. (= Osterdamia tenuifolia (Willd. ex Thiele) Kuntze) Korean velvet grass Ito-shiba