Crypsis (genus)

pricklegrass
Crypsis alopecuroides[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus: Crypsis
Ait.
Type species
Crypsis aculeata
(L.) Ait.
Synonyms[2]
  • Pallasia Scop. 1777, rejected name not L.f. 1782 nor L'Hér. ex Aiton 1789 nor Klotzsch 1853
  • Antitragus Gaertn.
  • Heleochloa Host ex Roem.
  • Raddia Mazziari 1834, illegitimate homonym not Bertol. 1819 nor DC. 1824
  • Ceytosis Munro
  • Torgesia Bornm.

Crypsis is an African and Eurasian plant in the grass samily sometimes referred to as pricklegrass.[3][4][5][6]

These are annual grasses with short leaves. A few species are invasive weeds outside their native ranges.[7][8][9]

Species[2][10][11]
  1. Crypsis aculeata - from Portugal and Mauritania to Korea
  2. Crypsis acuminata - from Turkey to Kazakhstan
  3. Crypsis alopecuroides - from Portugal and Morocco to Korea; introduced in western North America (British Columbia + western USA)
  4. Crypsis factorovskyi - Caucasus, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
  5. Crypsis hadjikyriakou - Cyprus
  6. Crypsis minuartioides - Sharon Plain in northwestern Israel
  7. Crypsis schoenoides - from Britain to China + Pakistan + Mozambique; introduced in North America (western USA, Great Lakes region, Baja California)
  8. Crypsis turkestanica - Central Asia, Caucasus, western Siberia, southern European Russia
  9. Crypsis vaginiflora - Africa; Middle East, India, Pakistan; introduced in North America (Idaho, Oregon, California, Baja California)
formerly included[2]

see Muhlenbergia Munroa Phleum Rhizocephalus Sporobolus Urochondra

  • Crypsis arenaria - Phleum arenarium
  • Crypsis dura - Urochondra setulosa
  • Crypsis juncea - Sporobolus junceus
  • Crypsis macroura - Muhlenbergia macroura
  • Crypsis maritima - Sporobolus virginicus
  • Crypsis myosurus - Sporobolus spicatus
  • Crypsis phleoides - Muhlenbergia angustata
  • Crypsis pygmaea - Rhizocephalus orientalis
  • Crypsis setifolia - Muhlenbergia macroura
  • Crypsis setulosa - Urochondra setulosa
  • Crypsis squarrosa - Munroa squarrosa
  • Crypsis stricta - Muhlenbergia angustata
  • Crypsis virginica - Sporobolus virginicus

References

  1. ↑ 1950 illustration from Hitchcock, A.S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Aiton, William. 1789. Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew 1: 48 in Latin
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Crypsis Aiton
  5. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 485 隐花草属 yin hua cao shu Crypsis Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1: 48. 1789.
  6. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Crypsis
  7. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  8. ↑ USDA Plants Profile
  9. ↑ Hammel, B. E. & J. R. Reeder. 1979. The genus Crypsis (Gramineae) in the United States. Systematic Botany 4(4): 267–280
  10. ↑ The Plant List search for Crypsis
  11. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps