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|accepted_name=Arthraxon
|accepted_authority=P. Beauv.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Arthraxon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arthraxon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 677
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; scrambling. <b>Culms</b> 0.5-2 m, ascending to decumbent, often rooting at the nodes, branched. <b>Leaves</b> not aromatic; sheaths open, at least the outer margins pubescent, usually with papillose-based hairs; ligules membranous, fimbriate or ciliate; blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, panicles of subdigitate, often flabellate, clusters of rames; rame internodes not sulcate; disarticulation in the rames, beneath the sessile spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> in heteromorphic sessile-pedicellate pairs or appearing solitary and sessile, pedicels greatly reduced and lacking spikelets. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets bisexual, with 2 florets; calluses absent or blunt; glumes equal or subequal; lower florets sterile, reduced to an unawned lemma; upper florets bisexual, awned (rarely unawned); anthers 2 or 3. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2-3 mm, not thickened, not fused to the rame axes. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets absent or rudimentary, x = 9, 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);N.J.;N.Y.;Fla.;Puerto Rico;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Ind.;Ohio;Ala.;Miss.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Mass.;Md.;Okla.;D.C;Oreg.;Mo.;Kans.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Arthraxon</i> is a genus of seven species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Eastern Hemisphere; one species is established in the Flora region.</p>
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|id=welzen1981a
|text=Welzen, P.C. van. 1981. A taxonomic revision of Arthraxon Beauv. (Gramineae). Blumea 27:255-300.
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name=Arthraxon
|author=John W. Thieret;
|authority=P. Beauv.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);N.J.;N.Y.;Fla.;Puerto Rico;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Ind.;Ohio;Ala.;Miss.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Mass.;Md.;Okla.;D.C;Oreg.;Mo.;Kans.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Arthraxon
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