Arthraxon

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Arthraxon hispidus kobunags01.jpg

|image_caption = Arthraxon hispidus

|display_parents = 4

|parent_authority = Benth.

|taxon = Arthraxon

|authority = P.Beauv., 1812[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394190#page/195/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 111-112] description in Latin, commentary in French[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394190#page/296/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XI (11), figure VI (6 a-d)] line drawings of Arthraxon ciliaris; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394190#page/275/mode/1up figure captions in French on caption page 9]

|type_species_authority = P.Beauv.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40020097 Tropicos, Arthraxon P. Beauv.]

|type_species = Arthraxon ciliaris
(syn of A. hispidus)

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451085 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Pleuroplitis Trin.
• Lucaea Kunth
• Batratherum Nees
• Lasiolytrum Steud.
• Alectoridia A.Rich.
• Barthantherum Andersson

}}

Arthraxon, commonly known as carpetgrass,{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |title=English Names for Korean Native Plants |publisher=Korea National Arboretum |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |location=Pocheon |pages=362 |access-date=25 January 2017 |via=Korea Forest Service |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |archive-date=25 May 2017 }} is a genus of Asian, African and Australian plants in the grass family, Poaceae,{{cite web|url= http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/arthraxo.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |access-date=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |date=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World }}[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00059.htm Grassbase – The World Online Grass Flora] containing the following species:

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• Arthraxon antsirabensis – Madagascar
• Arthraxon castratus – Hainan, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Java
• Arthraxon cuspidatus – Ethiopia, Oman
• Arthraxon depressus – India
• Arthraxon echinatus – India, Nepal, Yunnan
• Arthraxon epectinatus – China, Himalayas
• Arthraxon hispidus – Asia, Africa, Australia, Indian Ocean islands
• Arthraxon inermis – India
• Arthraxon jubatus – Kerala
• Arthraxon junnarensis – Yunnan, India, Oman
• Arthraxon lanceolatus – eastern Africa, southern Asia
• Arthraxon lancifolius – Africa, southern Asia
• Arthraxon meeboldii – India
• Arthraxon microphyllus – Himalayas, Yunnan, Thailand
• Arthraxon multinervis – Guizhou
• Arthraxon nudus – southern Asia
• Arthraxon prionodes – eastern Africa, southern Asia
• Arthraxon raizadae – India
• Arthraxon santapaui – India, Himalayas
• Arthraxon submuticus – Himalayas, Yunnan
• Arthraxon typicus – Yunnan, Guangdong, Himalayas, Indochina, Java
• Arthraxon villosus – India

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Several species now in the genera Dimeria and Microstegium were formerly included in Arthraxon:

• Arthraxon batangensis – Microstegium batangense
• Arthraxon hohenackeri – Dimeria hohenackeri
• Arthraxon lanceolatus and Arthraxon nodosus – Microstegium vimineum