Trachypogon

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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|image_caption = Trachypogon spicatus inflorescence

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|image2_caption = Trachypogon spicatus habit

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|taxon = Trachypogon

|authority = Nees

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• Homopogon Stapf

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Trachypogon is a small genus of African and Latin American plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28854022#page/355/mode/1up Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 341–355] in Latin[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016125 Tropicos, Trachypogon Nees ][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00645.htm Grassbase – The World Online Grass Flora] Crinkleawn grass is a common name for plants in this genus.{{PLANTS|id=TRACH2|taxon=Trachypogon|accessdate=14 December 2015}}

; Species{{cite web|title=Trachypogon|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Trachypogon|work=The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1|accessdate=1 April 2014}}

• Trachypogon chevalieri (Stapf) Jacq.-Fél. – western and central Africa
• Trachypogon macroglossus Trin. – Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil
• Trachypogon spicatus (L.f.) Kuntze – Africa, Madagascar, South America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies, United States (AZ NM TX FL)[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Trachypogon%20spicatus.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]
• Trachypogon vestitus Andersson – Central and South America from Honduras to Brazil

; formerly included

see Bothriochloa Cymbopogon Heteropogon Hyparrhenia Sorghastrum Sorghum

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• Trachypogon argenteus – Bothriochloa saccharoides
• Trachypogon avenaceus – Sorghum halepense
• Trachypogon hirtus – Hyparrhenia hirta
• Trachypogon laguroides – Bothriochloa laguroides
• Trachypogon minarum – Sorghastrum minarum
• Trachypogon pubescens – Hyparrhenia hirta
• Trachypogon rufus – Hyparrhenia rufa
• Trachypogon scaberrimus – Sorghastrum scaberrimus
• Trachypogon schoenanthus – Cymbopogon schoenanthus
• Trachypogon scrobiculatus – Heteropogon melanocarpus
• Trachypogon stipoides – Sorghastrum stipoides

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