Diplopogon

Diplopogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
(unranked):
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Tribe:
Arundineae
Genus:
Diplopogon

Species:
D. setaceus
Binomial name
Diplopogon setaceus
Synonyms[1]
  • Dipogonia P.Beauv.
  • Dipogonia setacea (R.Br.) P.Beauv.
  • Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl.

Diplopogon is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. It was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown.[2] As of 2017 it contains only a singles species, Diplopogon setaceus, found in southwestern Australia. It is similar to the genus Amphipogon, the only difference being the awns of the lemma.[3]

It grows in seasonally wet areas, swamps, and fringing watercourses from Nannup to Albany. It flowers in spring and early summer in a greyish head of multiple spikelets.[4]

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. p. 176.
  3. ^ Australian Biological Resources Study (2002). Flora of Australia. Vol. 43. Csiro Publishing. p. 374.
  4. ^ Wheeler, Judith Roderick; Marchant, N.G.; Lewington, Margaret (2002). Flora of the South West: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. UWA Publishing. pp. 412–413.