Arthropogon

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Achlaena_piptostachya_HC-1936.png

|image_caption = Arthropogon piptostachyusillustration from Albert S. Hitchcock, Manual of the grasses of the West Indies. Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, 1936. Figure 100 (page 158).

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Arthropogon

|authority = Nees[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28854000#page/333/mode/1up Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel 1829 Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 319-320] in Latin

|type_species = Arthropogon villosus

|type_species_authority = Nees

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms =

• Achlaena Griseb.

}}

Arthropogon is a genus of South American and Caribbean bunchgrass plants in the grass family.{{cite web|url= http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/arthropo.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 |accessdate=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/gen00060.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26843891#page/357/mode/1up Filgueiras, T. S., G. Davidse, F. O. Zuloaga & O. Morrone. 2001. The establishment of the new genus Altoparadisium and a reevaluation of Arthropogon (Poaceae, Paniceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88(2): 351–372]Filgueiras, T. S. 1982. Taxonomia e distribuicao de Arthropgon Nees (Gramineae). Bradea 3: 303–322