Enneapogon Explained

Enneapogon is a cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.^{[1] [2]}

They are also called bottle washers or pappus grass. These perennial grass species are found in tropical and warm temperate areas. They have small, narrow inflorescences.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Species^[6]

• Enneapogon asperatus - Queensland
• Enneapogon avenaceus - bottle-washers - Australia
• Enneapogon caerulescens - Australia
• Enneapogon cenchroides - Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent
• Enneapogon cylindricus - jointed nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon decipiens - Australia
• Enneapogon desvauxii - nineawn pappusgrass - Africa, temperate Asia, southwestern United States, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina
• Enneapogon elegans - Burma, India
• Enneapogon eremophilus - Northern Territory, Queensland
• Enneapogon foxii - Israel
• Enneapogon gracilis - slender bottle-washers - Queensland, New South Wales
• Enneapogon intermedius - Australia
• Enneapogon lindleyanus - conetop nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon nigricans - blackheads, niggerheads - Australia ^[7]
• Enneapogon pallidus - Australia, New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands
• Enneapogon persicus - Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Jammu-Kashmir, Pakistan, Central Asia, Spain, Egypt, Algeria, tropical Africa, Middle East
• Enneapogon polyphyllus - leafy nineawn - Australia
• Enneapogon pretoriensis - Botswana to Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
• Enneapogon purpurascens - Western Australia, Northern Territory
• Enneapogon robustissimus - Australia
• Enneapogon scaber - Saudi Arabia, drier parts of Africa
• Enneapogon scoparius - Yemen, Africa
• Enneapogon spathaceus - Limpopo
• Enneapogon truncatus - Queensland, New South Wales
• Enneapogon virens - Queensland, New South Wales

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394160#page/165/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 81-82
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/394160#page/301/mode/1up Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XVI (16), figure XI (11)
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=111718 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 456 九顶草属 jiu ding cao shu Enneapogon Desvaux ex P. Beauvois
4. Web site: Atlas of Living Australia, Enneapogon Desv. ex P.Beauv., Nineawn grasses . 2015-02-05 . 2015-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150205221708/http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:351727 . dead .
5. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,8991 Jepson Manual Treatment
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Enneapogon The Plant List search for Enneapogon
7. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Enneapogon~nigricans Enneapogon nigricans.