Enneapogon

bottle washers
pappus grass
Enneapogon nigricans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus: Enneapogon
Desv. ex P.Beauv.
Type species
Enneapogon desvauxii
Desv. ex P.Beauv.[1][2]
Synonyms[3][2]
  • 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.[4][5][6]

They are generally known as niggerheads, bottle washers or pappus grass. These perennial grass species are found in tropical and warm temperate areas. They have small, narrow inflorescences.[7][8][9]

Species[3][10]
  1. Enneapogon asperatus - Queensland
  2. Enneapogon avenaceus - bottle-washers - Australia
  3. Enneapogon caerulescens - Australia
  4. Enneapogon cenchroides - Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent
  5. Enneapogon cylindricus - jointed nineawn - Australia
  6. Enneapogon decipiens - Australia
  7. Enneapogon desvauxii - nineawn pappusgrass - Africa, temperate Asia, southwestern USA, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina
  8. Enneapogon eremophilus - Northern Territory, Queensland
  9. Enneapogon foxii - Israel
  10. Enneapogon gracilis - slender bottle-washers - Queensland, New South Wales
  11. Enneapogon intermedius - Australia
  12. Enneapogon lindleyanus - conetop nineawn - Australia
  13. Enneapogon nigricans - blackheads, niggerheads - Australia [11]
  14. Enneapogon pallidus - Australia, New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands
  15. Enneapogon persicus - Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Jammu-Kashmir, Pakistan, Central Asia, Spain, Egypt, Algeria, tropical Africa, Middle East
  16. Enneapogon polyphyllus - leafy nineawn - Australia
  17. Enneapogon pretoriensis - Botswana to Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
  18. Enneapogon purpurascens - Western Australia, Northern Territory
  19. Enneapogon robustissimus - Australia
  20. Enneapogon scaber - Saudi Arabia, drier parts of Africa
  21. Enneapogon scoparius - Yemen, Africa
  22. Enneapogon spathaceus - Limpopo
  23. Enneapogon truncatus - Queensland, New South Wales
  24. Enneapogon virens - Queensland, New South Wales

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 83 (1920)
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, Enneapogon Desv. ex P. Beauv.
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 81-82 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  5. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVI (16), figure XI (11) line drawings of Enneapogon desvauxii
  6. ↑ Tropicos, Enneapogon Desv. ex P. Beauv.
  7. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 456 九顶草属 jiu ding cao shu Enneapogon Desvaux ex P. Beauvois
  8. ↑ Atlas of Living Australia, Enneapogon Desv. ex P.Beauv., Nineawn grasses
  9. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  10. ↑ The Plant List search for Enneapogon
  11. ↑ Enneapogon nigricans. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium of New South Wales. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.

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