''Lophopogon'' is a ditypic

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

endemic to

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

, consisting of two well-known species '' Lophopogon tridentatus'' (Roxb.) Hackel and '' Lophopogon kingii'' Hook f. belonging to the tribe

Andropogoneae The Andropogoneae, sometimes called the sorghum tribe, are a large tribe of grasses (family Poaceae) with roughly 1,200 species in 90 genera, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. They include such important crops as maize (corn), ...

in the grass family. '' Lophopogon prasannae'', a species described from the state of Andhra Pradesh is allied to ''L. kingii'' and was thus synonymised as a new heterotypic synonym of the latter. ''L. tridentatus'' is a widely distributed species in India whereas ''L. kingii'' is a rare grass occurring in

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Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...

and

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in India. ; SpeciesKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Bor, N. L. 1960. Grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae) i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford * '' Lophopogon kingii'' Hook.f. -

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states in India. * '' Lophopogon tridentatus'' (Roxb.) Hack. - Andhra pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

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; Formerly included see '' Apocopis Germainia'' * ''Lophopogon intermedius - Apocopis intermedia'' * ''Lophopogon tenax - Germainia tenax'' * ''Lophopogon truncatiglumis - Germainia truncatiglumis''

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Andropogoneae Poaceae genera Endemic flora of India (region) Taxa named by Eduard Hackel {{Panicoideae-stub