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Pentapogon
Sign in to savePentapogon is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Pentapogon quadrifidus. It is native to every Australian State except Queensland, and is also naturalised on the South Island of New Zealand. (A former Pentapogon species, Pentapogon drummondii, is now placed in Calamagrostis as Calamagrostis drummondii.)
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 89
- With media
- 96
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- US, A
- Recorded in
- United States, Chile, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia
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Pentapogon is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Pentapogon quadrifidus. It is native to every Australian State except Queensland, and is also naturalised on the South Island of New Zealand. (A former Pentapogon species, Pentapogon drummondii, is now placed in Calamagrostis as Calamagrostis drummondii.)
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pentapogon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.