taxonID	type	description	language	source
D22E87ACFF96FFEC381990B6FC3340FE.taxon	description	Flowering & fruiting: Flowering and fruiting from May to July. Habitat: The species is known from only one locality in Telangana (India) in open areas of dry deciduous forests. It grows in association with Chrysopogon fulvus (Spreng.) Chiov., Oropetium roxburghianum (Schult.) S. M. Phillips (both Poaceae) and Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. (Lamiaceae). Distribution: Indigenous to tropical Africa, excluding the Congo basin, and southwards to Natal; Cape Verde Islands and Madagascar (Phillips & Launert, 1971), recently naturalised in India (Telangana). Specimens examined: INDIA, Telangana, Medak district, Chegunta, N 17 ̊ 58 ' 13.6452 " E 78 ̊ 26 ' 51.6372 ", 564 m, 28.06.2020, J. Swamy 009302 (BSID). Notes: The species is similar to Tripogon purpurascens in its habit and 2 - lobed lemma with the midvein extending in to a small mucro and the lateral lobes awnless, but differs in having shorter culms, glabrous leaf blades, number of florets, shorter racemes, length of spikelets, shape and size of glumes, length of lemmas, shape and size of paleas and length of anthers.	en	Swamy, J. (2020): Tripogonella minima (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae: Tripogoninae), a new record for Asia from Peninsular India. Rheedea 30 (3): 396-399, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.03.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2020.30.03.06
