Diplopogon

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]

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.

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]

References
  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. 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.


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