Tripogon

Genus of grasses

Tripogon
Tripogon loliiformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Tripogoninae
Genus: Tripogon
Roem. & Schult.
Type species
Tripogon bromoides
Roth.[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Arcangelina Kuntze
  • Kralikia Coss. & Durieu
  • Plagiolytrum Nees

Tripogon is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family.[3] They are widespread across Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.[4][5][6][7] Fiveminute grass is a common name for plants in this genus.[8]

Species

Species include:[4][9]

  • Tripogon africanus - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, Oman, Saudi Arabia
  • Tripogon anantaswamianus - India
  • Tripogon borii - Tamil Nadu
  • Tripogon bromoides - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
  • Tripogon capillatus - Oman, India, Myanmar
  • Tripogon chinensis - China, Mongolia, Siberia, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines
  • Tripogon copei - Tamil Nadu
  • Tripogon curvatus - Kenya
  • Tripogon debilis - Sichuan
  • Tripogon ekmanii - Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
  • Tripogon filiformis - China, Indian Subcontinent, southeast Asia
  • Tripogon humilis - Tibet
  • Tripogon jacquemontii - India
  • Tripogon larsenii - Thailand
  • Tripogon leptophyllus - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, Oman
  • Tripogon liouae - Tibet
  • Tripogon lisboae - India
  • Tripogon loliiformis - New Guinea, Australia
  • Tripogon longiaristatus - China, Japan, Korea
  • Tripogon major - Africa
  • Tripogon minimus - Africa incl Madagascar + Cape Verde
  • Tripogon modestus - Angola, Malawi
  • Tripogon montanus - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
  • Tripogon multiflorus - Cape Verde, Niger, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Pakistan
  • Tripogon narayanae - India
  • Tripogon nicorae - Bolivia, Argentina, Chile
  • Tripogon oliganthos - Yemen
  • Tripogon polyanthus - India
  • Tripogon pungens - India
  • Tripogon purpurascens - southern Asia from Yemen to Xinjiang to Thailand
  • Tripogon ravianus - Tamil Nadu
  • Tripogon rupestris - Yunnan, Nepal, Tibet
  • Tripogon siamensis - Thailand
  • Tripogon sichuanicus - Sichuan
  • Tripogon sivarajanii - Kerala
  • Tripogon spicatus - from Texas to Uruguay
  • Tripogon subtilissimus - Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Oman
  • Tripogon thorelii - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Tripogon trifidus - Himalayas, Yunnan, northern Indochina
  • Tripogon vellarianus - Kerala
  • Tripogon velliangiriensis - Tamil Nadu
  • Tripogon wardii - Sri Lanka, Myanmar
  • Tripogon wightii - India
  • Tripogon yunnanensis - Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet
  • Tripogon malabaricus - Kerala
  • Tripogon idukkianus - Kerala
  • Tripogon bimucronatus - Kerala
  • Tripogon munnarensis - Kerala
  • Tripogon karnatakensis - Karnataka
  • Tripogon uma-ganeshii - Andhra Pradesh

Formerly included:[4] see Indopoa Oropetium

  • Tripogon pauperculus - Indopoa paupercula
  • Tripogon roxburghianus - Oropetium roxburghianum

References

  1. ^ Tropicos, Tripogon Roem. & Schult.
  2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Roemer, Johann Jakob & Schultes, Josef August 1817. Systema Vegetabilium 2: 34, 600 in Latin
  4. ^ a b c Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ^ Flora of Pakistan Vol. 22 Page 466 草沙蚕属 cao sha can shu Tripogon Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 2: 34. 1817
  6. ^ Flopra of Pakistan
  7. ^ Atlas of Living Australia
  8. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tripogon". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  9. ^ The Plant List search for Tripogon
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