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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
|mention_page=
|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>Tripogon 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, Tripogon spicatus, native to the Western Hemisphere.</p>
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name=Tripogon
|author=J.K. Wipff;
|authority=Roem. & Schult.
|rank=genus
|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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