{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Flora Atlantica, sive, Historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt (Plate 255) (9301080280).jpg | image_caption = ''Tetrapogon villosus'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Tetrapogon | authority = Desf. | type_species = ''Tetrapogon villosus'' | type_species_authority = Desf. | synonyms = * ''Codonachne'' <small>Steud.</small> * ''Cryptochloris'' <small>Benth.</small> * ''Lepidopironia'' <small>A. Rich.</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=g>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=446296 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> }}
'''''Tetrapogon''''' is a genus of grasses.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/305155#page/401/mode/1up Desfontaines, René Louiche. 1800. Flora Atlantica 2: pages 388-389] in Latin</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/305155#page/742/mode/1up Desfontaines, René Louiche. 1800. Flora Atlantica 2: plate 255] line drawing of ''Tetrapogon villosus''</ref><ref name="CRC">{{cite book |author=Umberto Quattrocchi |year=2006 |title=CRC world dictionary of grasses: common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology, Volume 1 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-1303-5 |chapter=''Tetrapogon'' Desf. |pages=2197–2198}}</ref>
The name ''Tetrapogon'' derives from the Greek roots ''tetra-'' and ''pogon'', meaning "four" and "beard", respectively, in reference to the tufts of hairs on the plant.<ref name="CRC"/> The species in this genus are distributed across Africa and through the Middle East as far east as India.<ref name="CRC"/><ref>Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Fl. Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420</ref>
; Species<ref name=g/><ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Tetrapogon The Plant List search for ''Tetrapogon'']</ref><ref>[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00631.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]</ref> * ''Tetrapogon bidentatus'' <small>Pilg.</small> - Tanzania, Kenya * ''Tetrapogon cenchriformis'' <small>(A.Rich.) Pilg.</small> - Africa + Arabia from Cape Verde to Saudi Arabia to Tanzania * ''Tetrapogon ferrugineus'' <small>(Renvoize) S.M.Phillips</small> - Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia * ''Tetrapogon tenellus'' <small>Chiov.</small> - India * ''Tetrapogon tetrastachys'' <small>Hack. ex Hook.f.</small> - Indian subcontinent; Arabian Peninsula; Africa from Djibouti to Mpumalanga * ''Tetrapogon villosus'' <small>Desf.</small> - - Africa + southwest Asia from Canary Islands to Turkmenistan to Uganda
; formerly included<ref name=g/> see ''Chloris'' * ''Tetrapogon flabellatus - Chloris flabellata'' * ''Tetrapogon mossambicensis - Chloris mossambicensis'' * ''Tetrapogon tetrastachys - Chloris montana''
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