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|accepted_name=Polypogon
|accepted_authority=Desf.
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Polypogon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polypogon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 662
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 4-120 cm, erect to decumbent, rooting at the lower nodes, sparingly branched near the base. <b>Leaves</b> usually no more than 5 per culm, basal and cauline; sheaths open, smooth or scabridulous; auricles absent; ligules membranous or hyaline, acute to broadly rounded, erose, ciliate; blades flat to convolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, dense, continuous or interrupted below; branches flexible, usually some longer than 1 cm; pedicels absent and the spikelets borne on a stipe, or present and terminating in a stipe; stipes scabrous, flaring distally; disarticulation at the base of the stipes. <b>Spikelets</b> 1-5 mm, weakly laterally compressed, with 1 bisexual floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret. <b>Glumes</b> exceeding the floret, lanceolate, bases not fused, apices entire to emarginate or bilobed, usually awned from the sinuses or apices, awns flexuous, glabrous, sometimes unawned; lemmas 1-3(5)-veined, often awned, awns usually terminal or subterminal, sometimes arising from just above midlength; paleas from 1/3 as long as to equaling the lemmas; lodicules 2, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous; styles separate. <b>Caryopses</b> slightly flattened, broadly ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid; hila 1/6 – 1/4 as long as the caryopses, ovate, x = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Idaho;Mont.;Wash.;Va.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Del.;Wis.;Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Calif.;Nev.;Puerto Rico;Colo.;Alaska;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Md.;Utah;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Polypogon</i> is a pantropical and warm-temperate genus of about 18 species. There are eight species in the Flora region; one species, <i>P. interruptus</i>, is native.</p><!--
--><p><i>Polypogon</i> is similar to <i>Agrostis</i>, and occasionally hybridizes with it. It differs from <i>Agrostis</i> in having spikelets that disarticulate below the glumes, often at the base of a stipe.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cope1982a
|text=Cope, T.A. 1982. Flora of Pakistan, No. 143: Poaceae (E. Nasir and S.I. Ali, eds.). Pakistan Agricultural Research Council and University of Karachi, Islamabad and Karachi, Pakistan. 678 pp.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Glumes with awns 3-12 mm long.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Glumes deeply lobed, the lobes more than 1/6 the length of the glume body
|[[Polypogon maritimus|Polypogon maritimus]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Glumes not lobed or the lobes 1/10 or less the length of the glume body.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Plants annual; glume apices rounded, lobed, the lobes 0.1-0.2 mm long; ligules 2.5-16 mm long
|[[Polypogon monspeliensis|Polypogon monspeliensis]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Plants perennial; glume apices acute to truncate, unlobed or the lobes shorter than 0.1 mm; ligules 1-6 mm long.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Glume awns (3)4-6 mm long; longest blades 13-17 cm long
|[[Polypogon australis|Polypogon australis]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Glume awns 1.5-3.2 mm long; longest blades 5-9 cm long
|[[Polypogon interruptus|Polypogon interruptus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Glumes unawned or with awns to 3.2 mm long.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Glumes unawned
|[[Polypogon viridis|Polypogon viridis]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Glumes awned, the awns 0.2-3.2 mm long.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Stipes 1.5-2.5 mm long; glumes tapering from about midlength to the acute, unlobed apices
|[[Polypogon elongatus|Polypogon elongatus]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Stipes 0.2-1.5 mm long; glumes not tapering to the apices, the apices usually rounded to truncate, sometimes acute, often lobed.
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Lemmas 1-2 mm long; paleas about 1/2 as long as the lemmas; the lower glumes longer than the upper glumes
|[[Polypogon imberbis|Polypogon imberbis]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Lemmas 0.7-1.5 mm long; paleas from 3/4 as long as to equaling the lemmas; glumes of each spikelet subequal to equal.
|[[#key-0-8| > 8]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Plants annual; glumes acute to rounded, lobed, the lobes 0.1-0.2 mm long
|[[Polypogon fugax|Polypogon fugax]]
|-id=key-0-8
|8
|Plants perennial, often flowering the first year; glumes acute to truncate, if lobed, the lobes to 0.1 mm long
|[[Polypogon interruptus|Polypogon interruptus]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Polypogon
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Desf.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Idaho;Mont.;Wash.;Va.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Del.;Wis.;Conn.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Calif.;Nev.;Puerto Rico;Colo.;Alaska;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Md.;Utah;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;Oreg.
|reference=cope1982a
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_932.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Polypogon
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