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