Amphipogon setaceus

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Amphipogon setaceus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Amphipogon
Species:
A. setaceus
Binomial name
Amphipogon setaceus
Synonyms [1]
  • Diplopogon setaceusR.Br.
  • Dipogonia setacea(R.Br.) P.Beauv.

Amphipogon setaceus is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to Western Australia. [1] 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. [2] When placed in the genus Diplopogon as Diplopogon setaceus, it was the only species. [3]

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 as Diplopogon setaceus. [4] [5] It was the only species in the genus. [3] In 2002, Terry Desmond Macfarlane transferred it to the genus Amphipogon , a placement accepted by Plants of the World Online and the Australian Plant Census as of November 2024. [1] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  2. ↑ Wheeler, Judith Roderick; Marchant, N.G.; Lewington, Margaret (2002). Flora of the South West: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. UWA Publishing. pp. 412–413.
  3. 1 2 "Search for 'Diplopogon'". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  4. ↑ "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." The International Plant Names Index . Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  5. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. p.  176.
  6. ↑ "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2024-11-21.


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