Poaceae

Tripogonella minima (A. Rich.) P.M. Peterson & Romasch.

Also mentioned in the literature as Tripogon minimus. (?)

Geographic distribution (?)

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Confirmed occurrences (?): Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Chad, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Ecology

Found in the biomes (?): TM, TD, TS, FS, MG, DX

Found in the Köppen-Geiger climatic zones (?): BSh, Aw, BWh, Cwa, Cfa, Cwb

Distribution across environmental gradients (?):

Elevation

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BIO1 (annual mean temperature)

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BIO4 (temperature seasonality)

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BIO12 (annual precipitation)

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BIO15 (precipitation seasonality)

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Conservation

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025-2 (?): Not assessed

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1 (?): Not threatened

Data collection gaps

Botanical countries lacking appropriate occurrence records (?): Angola, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Sudan-South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

References

Gaff, DF, Sutaryono, YA & Miszalski, Z. 1990. Resurrecting desiccation-tolerant resurrection grasses from dryland areas. Wiadomości Botaniczne. 34(2):17–22.

Useful links

Source distribution information: powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77160938-1

Source occurrence data: doi.org/10.15468/dl.gzfvm3

Source IUCN conservation status: x