Tripogon

Tripogon
Tripogon loliiformis
Scientific 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. 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. NRCS. "Tripogon". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
9. The Plant List search for Tripogon