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|accepted_name=Tripogon
|accepted_authority=Roem. & Schult.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Tripogon
|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>[[Tripogon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 61
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial or annual; cespitose or tufted. <b>Culms</b> 4-65 cm, erect, slender. <b>Leaves</b> linear, flat, usually becoming folded and filiform; ligules membranous, ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, unilateral linear spikes or spikelike racemes, with 1 spikelet per node, exceeding the leaves; rachises visible, not concealed by the spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> appressed, in 2 rows along 1 side of the rachises, with 3-20 bisexual florets, distal florets sterile or staminate; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, 1(3)-veined; lemmas 1-3-veined, backs slightly keeled or rounded, apices lobed or bifid, mucronate or awned from between the lobes, lateral veins sometimes also excurrent, awns usually straight; anthers 1-3. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.J.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Tripogon</i> is a genus of approximately 30 species, most of which are native to the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, especially Africa and India, but with one, <i>Tripogon spicatus</i>, native to the Western Hemisphere.</p>
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name=Tripogon
|author=J.K. Wipff;
|authority=Roem. & Schult.
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|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=N.J.;Tex.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Tripogon
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