Enteropogon

windmill grass
Enteropogon ramosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Enteropogon Nees
Type species
Enteropogon melicoides (Willd.) Nees

Enteropogon is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family. It is widespread across many parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and various islands.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Species^[7][8]

1. Enteropogon acicularis (Lindl.) Lazarides - curly windmill grass, large windmill grass, umbrella grass - Australia
2. Enteropogon barbatus C.E.Hubb. - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya
3. Enteropogon brandegeei (Vasey) Clayton - Baja California, Baja California Sur
4. Enteropogon chlorideus (Presl) Clayton - buryseed umbrella grass, verdillo cacahuatoide - Arizona, Texas, Mesoamerica
5. Enteropogon coimbatorensis K.K.N.Nair, S.K.Jain & M.P.Nayar - India
6. Enteropogon dolichostachyus (Lag.) Keng - Yemen, Oman, Afghanistan, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia, Micronesia
7. Enteropogon longiaristatus (Napper) Clayton - Tanzania
8. Enteropogon macrostachyus Munro ex Benth. - bushrye - Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West Province^[9]
9. Enteropogon minutus Lazarides - northern Australia
10. Enteropogon mollis (Nees) Clayton - Central America, West Indies, northern South America, Galápagos
11. Enteropogon monostachyus Schum. - Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
12. Enteropogon paucispiceus (Lazarides) B.K.Simon - Queensland
13. Enteropogon prieurii (Kunth) Clayton - drier parts of Africa; Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India
14. Enteropogon ramosus B.K.Simon - tussock umbrella grass - Australia
15. Enteropogon rupestris (J.A.Schmidt) A.Chev. - drier parts of Africa
16. Enteropogon seychellarum Benth. - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Madagascar, Seychelles, Aldabra
17. Enteropogon unispiceus (F.Muell.) Clayton - Taiwan, Queensland, New South Wales, Cook Islands

formerly included^[7]

see Microchloa

• Enteropogon muticus - Microchloa altera

References

1. Enteropogon. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.
2. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1836. in Lindley, John, Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, 2nd edition page 448
3. Tropicos, Enteropogon Nees
4. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 490 肠须草属 chang xu cao shu Enteropogon Nees in Lindley, Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2. 448. 1836.
5. Atlas of Living Australia, Enteropogon Nees, Windmill Grasses
6. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
7. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
8. The Plant List search for Enteropogon
9. Sanbi Red List of South African Plants includes distribution map