Trachypogon

Trachypogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Panicoideae
Tribe: Andropogoneae
Genus: Trachypogon
Nees
Synonyms[1]

Homopogon Stapf

Trachypogon is a small genus of African and Latin American plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[5][1]
  1. Trachypogon chevalieri (Stapf) Jacq.-Fél. - western + central Africa
  2. Trachypogon macroglossus Trin. - Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil
  3. Trachypogon spicatus (L.f.) Kuntze - Africa, Madagascar, South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, USA (AZ NM TX FL)[6]
  4. Trachypogon vestitus Andersson - Central + South America from Honduras to Brazil
formerly included[1]

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. ↑ "Trachypogon". The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map