{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Dichopogon |image = Dichopogon capillipes.jpg |image_caption = ''Dichopogon capillipes'' |authority = Kunth<ref name=stacey>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42518568#page/632/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1843. Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4: 622-624] in Latin</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name=mabel/> |synonyms=''Siona'' <small>Salisb.</small> }}
'''''Dichopogon''''' is a genus of perennial herbs, native to Australia and New Guinea.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Dichopogon |title=Genus ''Dichopogon'' |accessdate=2008-09-08 |author=|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}</ref> It is included in the genus ''Arthropodium'' by some authorities,<ref name=APNI/> although recognized as a distinct genus by others.<ref name=mabel>{{Citation |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do |accessdate=2011-05-25 }}, search for "Dichopogon"</ref> In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae (formerly the family Laxmanniaceae).<ref>{{Citation |last=Chase |first=M.W. |last2=Reveal |first2=J.L. |last3=Fay |first3=M.F. |year=2009 |title=A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=132–136 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x|name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}, as ''Arthropodium''</ref>
The name is derived from the Greek words <big>δίχα</big> (dicha, "duplicate") and <big>πώγων</big> (pogon, "barb").<ref name=stacey/>
;Species<ref name=mabel/><ref>{{FloraBase|name=''Dichopogon'' |id=21200 }}</ref><ref name=APNI>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=DICHOPOGON|title= ''Dichopogon''|accessdate=2008-09-08|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}</ref> *''Dichopogon capillipes''<small> (Endl.) Brittan</small> - Western Australia *''Dichopogon fimbriatus''<small> (R.Br.) J.F.Macbr.</small> = ''Arthropodium fimbriatum'' <small>R.Br.</small> - New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia *''Dichopogon preissii''<small> (Endl.) Brittan</small> - Western Australia *''Dichopogon strictus'' <small>(R.Br.) Baker</small> = ''Arthropodium strictum'' <small>R.Br.</small> New Guinea, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria *''Dichopogon tyleri''<small> Brittan</small> - Western Australia
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Category:Asparagaceae genera Category:Lomandroideae
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