View source for Aegopogon ← Aegopogon You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Aegopogon |accepted_authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |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 }}<!-- --><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><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |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> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=beetle1948a |text=Beetle, A.A. 1948. The genus Aegopogon Humbold. & Bonpl. Univ. Wyoming Publ. 13:17-23. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Aegopogon |author=Mary E. Barkworth; |authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Calif.;Ariz. |reference=beetle1948a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_910.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae |genus=Aegopogon }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Aegopogon.