Piptatherum

ricegrass
Piptatherum paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Stipoideae
Genus: Piptatherum
P.Beauv.
Type species
Piptatherum coerulescens
(Desf.) P.Beauv.[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Urachne Trin.
  • Oryzopsis sect. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Urachne subg. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Trin. & Rupr.

Piptatherum is a genus of plants in the grass faimly known as ricegrass.[4][5]

They are widely distributed across much of Eurasia, North Africa, and North America. These are clumping perennial grasses with long, tapering leaf blades.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Species[2][12]
  1. Piptatherum aequiglume
  2. Piptatherum alpestre
  3. Piptatherum angustifolium
  4. Piptatherum baluchistanicum
  5. Piptatherum barbellatum
  6. Piptatherum blancheanum
  7. Piptatherum canadense
  8. Piptatherum coerulescens
  9. Piptatherum ferganense
  10. Piptatherum flaccidum
  11. Piptatherum gracile
  12. Piptatherum grandispiculum
  13. Piptatherum grigorjevii
  14. Piptatherum hilariae
  15. Piptatherum holciforme
  16. Piptatherum kopetdagense
  17. Piptatherum kuoi
  18. Piptatherum laterale
  19. Piptatherum latifolium
  20. Piptatherum micranthum
  21. Piptatherum microcarpum
  22. Piptatherum miliaceum
  23. Piptatherum molinioides
  24. Piptatherum munroi
  25. Piptatherum pamiralaicum
  26. Piptatherum paradoxum
  27. Piptatherum platyanthum
  28. Piptatherum pungens
  29. Piptatherum purpurascens
  30. Piptatherum rechingeri
  31. Piptatherum roshevitsianum
  32. Piptatherum sogdianum
  33. Piptatherum songaricum
  34. Piptatherum tibeticum
  35. Piptatherum virescens
formerly included[2]

see Achnatherum Arundinella Eriochloa Nassella Oryzopsis Piptatheropsis Piptochaetium Stipa

References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 156 (1920)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Piptatherum P.Beauv.
  4. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 17-18 in Latin
  5. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate V(5), figures X (10 a-k) line drawings of Piptatherum coerulescens (captions on caption page 5)
  6. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 192 落芒草属 luo mang cao shu Piptatherum P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 17. 1812.
  7. ↑ Flora of Pakistan
  8. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Piptatherum
  9. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment
  10. ↑ USDA Plants Profile
  11. ↑ Grass Manual Treatment
  12. ↑ The Plant List search for Piptatherum