Biology:Molinia
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Short description: Genus of grasses
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| Molinia caerulea (right)[2] | |
Scientific classification 
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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]
- 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
- Molinia aquatica - Catabrosa aquatica
- Molinia distans - Puccinellia distans
- Molinia distans var. reptans - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia fauriei - Diarrhena fauriei
- Molinia fluitans - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia maritima - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia maxima - Glyceria maxima
- Molinia olgae - Festuca olgae
- Molinia pendulina - Arctophila fulva
- Molinia plicata - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia remota - Poa remota
- Molinia retusa - Disakisperma dubium
- Molinia serotina - Cleistogenes serotina
- Molinia spiculosa - Glyceria spiculosa
- Molinia squarrosa - Cleistogenes squarrosa
References
- ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
- ↑ 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
- ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. pp. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Plant List search for Molinia
Wikidata ☰ Q161711 entry
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