Biology:Rostraria

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Rostraria
Rostraria smyrnacea 1.JPG
Rostraria cristata
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Aveninae
Genus: Rostraria
Trin. 1820
Type species
Rostraria pubescens
(syn of R. cristata)[1]
Trin.
Synonyms[2]
  • Aegialina Schult.
  • Lophochloa Reichb.
  • Aegialitis Trin. 1820, illegitimate homonym not R.Br. 1810 (Plumbaginaceae)
  • Aegialina Schult.
  • Poarion Rchb.
  • Lophochloa Rchb.
  • Wilhelmsia K.Koch 1848, illegitimate homonym not Rchb. 1828 (Caryophyllaceae)
  • Ktenosachne Steud.
  • Parodiochloa A.M.Molina 1986, illegitimate homonym not C.E. Hubb. 1981 (Poaceae)
  • Raimundochloa A.M.Molina
  • Trisetum unranked Rostraria (Trin.) Trin.[3]

Rostraria is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Eurasia and North Africa with one species native to South America.[4][5] Hairgrass is a common name.[6]

These grasses are sometimes included in genus Koeleria.

Species[2][7][8]
  • Rostraria azorica S.Hend. - Santa Maria in Azores
  • Rostraria balansae (Coss. & Durieu) Holub - Algeria incl. Habibas Islands
  • Rostraria berythea (Boiss. & Blanche) Holub - Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Israel
  • Rostraria clarkeana (Domin) Holub - Jammu & Kashmir
  • Rostraria cristata (Linn.) Tzvelev - Mediterranean hairgrass - Mediterranean, Sahara, and southwest Asia from Portugal + Cape Verde to northern India
  • Rostraria hispida (Savi) Dogan - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Turkey
  • Rostraria litorea (All.) Holub - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Greece
  • Rostraria obtusiflora (Boiss.) Holub - from Crete to Tajikistan
  • Rostraria pumila (Desf.) Tzvelev[9] from Canary Islands to Pakistan
  • Rostraria rohlfsii (Asch.) Holub - Sahara (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Egypt)
  • Rostraria salzmannii (Boiss.) Holub - Spain , Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
  • Rostraria trachyantha (Phil.) Soreng - Peru, Chile
formerly included[2]

see Avellinia Trisetaria

  • Rostraria festucoides - Avellinia festucoides
  • Rostraria laevis - Trisetaria panicea
  • Rostraria neglecta - Trisetaria panicea
  • Rostraria parviflora - Trisetaria parviflora

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15961773 entry