Biology:Molinia

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Molinia
Illustration Molinia caerulea0.jpg
Molinia caerulea (right)[2]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Arundinoideae
Tribe: Molinieae
Subtribe: Moliniinae
Genus: Molinia
Schrank
Type species
Molinia varia
Synonyms[3]
  • Monilia A.Gray
  • Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
  • Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.[4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.[5][6][7]

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.[8]

Species[3][9]
  • Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada
  • Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril
formerly included[3]

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia


References

  1. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
  2. 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
  5. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. pp. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965. 
  6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
  7. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
  8. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 
  9. The Plant List search for Molinia

Wikidata ☰ Q161711 entry