{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Enneapogon nigricans.jpg | image_caption = ''Enneapogon nigricans'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Enneapogon | authority = Desv. ex P.Beauv. | type_species = ''Enneapogon desvauxii'' | type_species_authority = Desv. ex P.Beauv.<ref>lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 83 (1920)</ref><ref name=g>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003619 Tropicos, ''Enneapogon'' Desv. ex P. Beauv.]</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=g/><ref name=v>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=451471 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> | synonyms = * ''Pappophorum'' sect. ''Enneapogon'' <small>(Desv. ex P. Beauv.) Hack.</small> * ''Pappophorum'' sect. ''Enneapogon'' <small>(Desv. ex P. Beauv.) Trin.</small> * ''Calotheria'' <small>Wight & Arn. ex Steud.</small> }}
'''''Enneapogon''''' is a cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.<ref name="g"/><ref>[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] descriptions in Latin, commentary in French</ref><ref>[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)] line drawings of ''Enneapogon desvauxii''</ref>
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.<ref>[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]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:351727 |title=Atlas of Living Australia, ''Enneapogon'' Desv. ex P.Beauv., Nineawn grasses |access-date=2015-02-05 |archive-date=2015-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205221708/http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:351727 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,8991 Jepson Manual Treatment]</ref>
; Species<ref name=v/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Enneapogon The Plant List search for ''Enneapogon'']</ref> * ''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 <ref name=nsw>[http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Enneapogon~nigricans ''Enneapogon nigricans''.] New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium of New South Wales. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.</ref> * ''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
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikispecies}} * {{GrassBase | name = ''Enneapogon'' | id = gen00222}}
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Category:Enneapogon Category:Poaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois
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