Enneapogon

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Enneapogon nigricans.jpg

| image_caption = Enneapogon nigricans

| display_parents = 3

| taxon = Enneapogon

| authority = Desv. ex P.Beauv.

| type_species = Enneapogon desvauxii

| type_species_authority = Desv. ex P.Beauv.lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 83 (1920)[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003619 Tropicos, Enneapogon Desv. ex P. Beauv.]

| synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451471 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

| synonyms =

• Pappophorum sect. Enneapogon (Desv. ex P. Beauv.) Hack.
• Pappophorum sect. Enneapogon (Desv. ex P. Beauv.) Trin.
• Calotheria Wight & Arn. ex Steud.

}}

Enneapogon is a cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394160#page/165/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 81-82] descriptions in Latin, commentary in French[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394160#page/301/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVI (16), figure XI (11)] line drawings of Enneapogon desvauxii

They are also called bottle washers or pappus grass. These perennial grass species are found in tropical and warm temperate areas. They have small, narrow inflorescences.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=111718 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 456 九顶草属 jiu ding cao shu Enneapogon Desvaux ex P. Beauvois]{{Cite web |url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:351727 |title=Atlas of Living Australia, Enneapogon Desv. ex P.Beauv., Nineawn grasses |access-date=2015-02-05 |archive-date=2015-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205221708/http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:351727 |url-status=dead }}[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,8991 Jepson Manual Treatment]

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Enneapogon The Plant List search for Enneapogon]

• Enneapogon asperatus - Queensland
• Enneapogon avenaceus - bottle-washers - Australia
• Enneapogon caerulescens - Australia
• Enneapogon cenchroides - Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent
• Enneapogon cylindricus - jointed nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon decipiens - Australia
• Enneapogon desvauxii - nineawn pappusgrass - Africa, temperate Asia, southwestern United States, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina
• Enneapogon elegans - Burma, India
• Enneapogon eremophilus - Northern Territory, Queensland
• Enneapogon foxii - Israel
• Enneapogon gracilis - slender bottle-washers - Queensland, New South Wales
• Enneapogon intermedius - Australia
• Enneapogon lindleyanus - conetop nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon nigricans - blackheads, niggerheads - Australia [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Enneapogon~nigricans Enneapogon nigricans.] New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium of New South Wales. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
• Enneapogon pallidus - Australia, New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands
• Enneapogon persicus - Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Jammu-Kashmir, Pakistan, Central Asia, Spain, Egypt, Algeria, tropical Africa, Middle East
• Enneapogon polyphyllus - leafy nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon pretoriensis - Botswana to Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
• Enneapogon purpurascens - Western Australia, Northern Territory
• Enneapogon robustissimus - Australia
• Enneapogon scaber - Saudi Arabia, drier parts of Africa
• Enneapogon scoparius - Yemen, Africa
• Enneapogon spathaceus - Limpopo
• Enneapogon truncatus - Queensland, New South Wales
• Enneapogon virens - Queensland, New South Wales