| Amphipogon setaceus | |
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Scientific classification 
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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 (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl. | |
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Amphipogon setaceus is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to Western Australia. 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. When placed in the genus Diplopogon as Diplopogon setaceus, it was the only species.
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 as Diplopogon setaceus. It was the only species in the genus. 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.
References
- ^ "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
- Wheeler, Judith Roderick; Marchant, N.G.; Lewington, Margaret (2002). Flora of the South West: Bunbury, Augusta, Denmark. UWA Publishing. pp. 412–413.
- ^ "Search for 'Diplopogon'". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
- "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
- Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. p. 176.
- "Amphipogon setaceus (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl." Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2024-11-21.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Amphipogon setaceus | |
| Diplopogon setaceus | |
| Diplopogon | |
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