Biology:Micropyrum

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Micropyrum
Black and white drawing of Micropyrum tenellum. a wheat/grass-like plant, it is long and thin with thin sharp leaves and with bushels of seeds at the top
Drawing of Micropyrum tenellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
(unranked):
Monocots
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Order:
Family:
Genus:
Micropyrum

(Gaudin) Link
Type species
Triticum tenellum
Synonyms[1]
  • Triticum sect. Micropyrum Gaudin
  • Catapodium sect. Micropyrum (Gaudin) Maire & Weiller
  • Festuca sect. Micropyrum (Gaudin) Asch. & Graebn.

Micropyrum is a genus of European and North African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[5][6]
  • Micropyrum patens (Brot.) Rothm. ex Pilg. - Spain , Portugal
  • Micropyrum tenellum (L.) Link - Spain , Portugal including Madeira, France including Corsica, Italy (Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Sicily, Sardinia), Germany , Switzerland , Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco
formerly included[5]

see Castellia Catapodium Vulpia

  • Micropyrum mamoraeum - Catapodium mamoraeum
  • Micropyrum tenellum f. aristatum - Vulpia unilateralis
  • Micropyrum tenellum var. aristatum - Vulpia unilateralis
  • Micropyrum tuberculosum - Castellia tuberculosa

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3755449 entry