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]
Recently, a new species Tripogon fibrosissimus Landge & Manoj Chandran[9] was described from Gandikota Hills, a botanically under explored locality in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, South India. The species is characterised by having 2-flowered spikelets and shares morphological similarities with two Afro-Arabian congeners viz., T. africanus (Coss. & Durieu) H. Scholz. & P. Konig and T. oliganthos Cope.[9] It shares striking resemblance with Oropetium roxburghianum (Schult.) S.M. Phillips.
Species
- 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 fibrosissimus – Andhra Pradesh, India
- 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
- ^ 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
- ^ NRCS. “Tripogon“. PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ a b Landge, Shahid Nawaz; Chandran, Manoj; Gude, Alok L.; Shinde, Rajendra D. (28 January 2026). “Tripogon fibrosissimus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Tripogoninae): a new species from the Grand Canyon of India”. Phytotaxa. 739 (2): 213–226. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.739.2.5 – via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400119978_Tripogon_fibrosissimus_Poaceae_Chloridoideae_Tripogoninae_a_new_species_from_the_Grand_Canyon_of_India.
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