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Annuals or perennials. Leaves: lamina linear. Inflorescence of solitary or digitate racemes, each raceme bearing paired spikelets. Sessile spikelet male or barren and awnless, otherwise resembling the pedicellate. Pedicellate spikelet bisexual with pungent callus; lower glume grey-brown, convex on the back; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma entire, with a hairy awn from the apex. The genus is unusual in that the sessile spikelet is male or barren and awnless.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Trachypogon Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=227
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Trachypogon

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Trachypogon is a small genus of African and Latin American plants in the grass family.[2][3][4] Crinkleawn grass is a common name for plants in this genus.[5]

Species[1][6]
formerly included[1]

see Bothriochloa Cymbopogon Heteropogon Hyparrhenia Sorghastrum Sorghum

References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 341-355 in Latin
  3. ^ Tropicos, Trachypogon Nees
  4. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Trachypogon". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Trachypogon". The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  7. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
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Trachypogon: Brief Summary

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Trachypogon is a small genus of African and Latin American plants in the grass family. Crinkleawn grass is a common name for plants in this genus.

Species Trachypogon chevalieri (Stapf) Jacq.-Fél. - western + central Africa Trachypogon macroglossus Trin. - Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil Trachypogon spicatus (L.f.) Kuntze - Africa, Madagascar, South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, United States (AZ NM TX FL) Trachypogon vestitus Andersson - Central + South America from Honduras to Brazil formerly included

see Bothriochloa Cymbopogon Heteropogon Hyparrhenia Sorghastrum Sorghum

Trachypogon argenteus - Bothriochloa saccharoides Trachypogon avenaceus - Sorghum halepense Trachypogon hirtus - Hyparrhenia hirta Trachypogon laguroides - Bothriochloa laguroides Trachypogon minarum - Sorghastrum minarum Trachypogon pubescens - Hyparrhenia hirta Trachypogon rufus - Hyparrhenia rufa Trachypogon scaberrimus - Sorghastrum scaberrimus Trachypogon schoenanthus - Cymbopogon schoenanthus Trachypogon scrobiculatus - Heteropogon melanocarpus Trachypogon stipoides - Sorghastrum stipoides
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