Thelepogon

Annual. Leaf lamina broad. Inflorescence a terminal cluster of racemes; rhachis internodes thickened, clavate, glabrous. Spikelets of each pair markedly different; the sessile fertile, the pedicellate 0, represented by a flattened pedicel. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened; lower floret male; lower glume coarsely rugose; upper rugose; upper lemma 2-fid with a glabrous awn.

Thelepogon is a genus of Asian, African, and Australian plants in the grass family.

Species Thelepogon australiensis B.K.Simon - Queensland Thelepogon elegans Roth - Asia (India, Myanmar, Thailand, Java, Bali), Africa (from Guinea to Tanzania to Namibia) formerly included

see Schizachyrium

Thelepogon sanguineus - Schizachyrium sanguineum