Polypogon

Accepted species 24 Documented here 4 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 24 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf. 1,095 documented
Polypogon viridis (Gouan) Breistr. 424 documented
Polypogon fugax Nees ex Steud. 36 documented
Polypogon interruptus Kunth 13 documented
Polypogon australis Brongn. 2 below the evidence gate
Polypogon chilensis (Kunth) Pilg. 2 below the evidence gate
Polypogon adscendens Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon elongatus Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon exasperatus (Trin.) Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon griquensis (Stapf) Gibbs Russ. & Fish 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon hissaricus (Roshev.) Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon imberbis (Phil.) Johow 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon ivanovae Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon linearis Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon magellanicus (Lam.) Finot 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon maritimus Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon mollis (Thouars) C.E.Hubb. & E.W.Groves 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon nilgiricus Kabeer & V.J.Nair 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon parvulus Roseng., B.R.Arrill. & Izag. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon pygmeus Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon schimperianus (Hochst. ex Steud.) Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon subspathaceus Req. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon tenellus R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Polypogon tenuis Brongn. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.