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|accepted_name=Aegopogon
|accepted_authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Aegopogon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aegopogon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 273
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; synoecious; tufted, cespitose, or sprawling. <b>Culms</b> 2-30 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> open; ligules membranous; blades flat. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemelike, 1-sided panicles, usually exceeding the upper leaves; branches 0.4-0.8 mm, not appressed to the rachis, with 3 spikelets, bases sharply curved, strigose, axes not extending beyond the distal spikelets; disarticulation at the base of the branches. <b>Spikelets</b> with 1 floret; lateral spikelets pedicellate, staminate or sterile, varying from rudimentary to as large as the central spikelet; central spikelets sessile or pedicellate, laterally compressed, bisexual. <b>Glumes</b> exceeded by the florets, cuneate, truncate to bilobed, 1-veined, awned from the midveins, sometimes also from the lateral lobes; lemmas 3-veined, central veins and sometimes the lateral veins extended into awns, central awns always the longest; paleas almost as long as the lemmas, 2-keeled, 2-awned; lodicules 2; anthers 3; styles 2. <b>Caryopses</b> about twice as large as the embryos; hila punctate, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.
|discussion=<p><i>Aegopogon</i> is an American genus of four species that extends from the southwestern United States to Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina. One species is native in the Flora region.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=beetle1948a
|text=Beetle, A.A. 1948. The genus Aegopogon Humbold. & Bonpl. Univ. Wyoming Publ. 13:17-23.
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name=Aegopogon
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.
|reference=beetle1948a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Aegopogon
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