Deschampsia

hair grass
tussock grass
Deschampsia flexuosa (left)
Deschampsia cespitosa (right)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Airinae
Genus: Deschampsia
P.Beauv.[2]
Type species
Deschampsia cespitosa
(L.) P.Beauv.[3][4]
Synonyms[5]
  • Airidium Steud.
  • Avenella Bluff ex Drejer
  • Campelia Kunth. alternate spelling
  • Campella Link
  • Czerniaevia Ledeb.
  • Erioblastus Honda
  • Homoiachne Pilg.
  • Lerchenfeldia Schur
  • Monandraira Desv.
  • Podionapus Dulac
  • Vahlodea Fr.

Deschampsia is a genus of plants in the grass family, commonly known as hair grass[6] or tussock grass. The genus is widespread across many countries.[7][8]

The genus is named for French physician and naturalist Louis Auguste Deschamps, 1765-1842.[7][9]

Deschampsia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Antler Moth, The Clay, Clouded-bordered Brindle, Common Wainscot, Dark Arches, Dusky Brocade, Shoulder-striped Wainscot, Smoky Wainscot and Wall.

Deschampsia sometimes grow in boggy acidic formations, an example of which is the Portlethen Moss, Scotland. Deschampsia antarctica is the world's most southern monocot, and one of only two flowering plants of Antarctica.

Species[5]
  1. Deschampsia airiformis (Steud.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. - Chile, Argentina
  2. Deschampsia angusta Stapf & C.E.Hubb. - Zaire, Kenya, Uganda
  3. Deschampsia antarctica E.Desv. - Chile, Argentina, Antarctica, Falkland Is, South Georgia, Crozet Is, Heard-McDonald Is, Kerguelen Is, South Sandwich Is
  4. Deschampsia argentea Lowe - Azores, Madeira, Canary Is
  5. Deschampsia atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Scheele - northern Eurasia, North America, Chile, Argentina
  6. Deschampsia baicalensis Tzvelev - Irkutsk
  7. Deschampsia berteroniana (Kunth) F.Meigen - Chile, Argentina
  8. Deschampsia bottnica (Wahlenb.) Trin. - Kvarken Archipelago (part of Finland)
  9. Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. - temperate, subarctic, + alpine regions in North America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, various islands
  10. Deschampsia chapmanii Petrie - New Zealand incl Antipodes, Macquarie Is
  11. Deschampsia christophersenii C.E.Hubb. - Tristan da Cunha
  12. Deschampsia cordillerarum Hauman - Chile, Argentina
  13. Deschampsia danthonioides (Trin.) Munro – Annual hairgrass - Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, western USA, Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua)
  14. Deschampsia domingensis Hitchc. & Ekman - Dominican Rep
  15. Deschampsia elongata (Hook.) Munro - Chile, Argentina, USA incl Alaska, Canada, Mexico
  16. Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin - Eurasia, alpine areas in Africa; northern North America, southern South America, Falkland Is
  17. Deschampsia foliosa Hack. - Azores
  18. Deschampsia gracillima Kirk New Zealand incl Antipodes, Tasmania
  19. Deschampsia kingii (Hook.f.) É.Desv. - Chile, Argentina
  20. Deschampsia klossii Ridl. - Lesser Sunda Is, New Guinea
  21. Deschampsia koelerioides Regel - Siberia, Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan
  22. Deschampsia laxa Phil. - Chile, Argentina
  23. Deschampsia leskovii Tzvelev - northern European Russia
  24. Deschampsia liebmanniana (E.Fourn.) Hitchc. - Mexico
  25. Deschampsia ligulata (Stapf) Henrard - Borneo
  26. Deschampsia looseriana Parodi - Chile
  27. Deschampsia maderensis (Hack. & Bornm.) Buschm. - Madeira
  28. Deschampsia media (Gouan) Roem. & Schult. - central + southern Europe, Morocco, Caucasus
  29. Deschampsia mejlandii C.E.Hubb. - Tristan da Cunha
  30. Deschampsia mendocina Parodi - Argentina
  31. †Deschampsia mexicana Scribn. - Mexico, apparently extinct
  32. Deschampsia mildbraedii Pilg. - Cameroon
  33. Deschampsia nubigena Hillebr. - Hawaii
  34. Deschampsia parvula (Hook.f.) É.Desv. - Chile, Argentina, Falkland Is, Anvers Island
  35. Deschampsia patula (Phil.) Skottsb. - Chile, Argentina
  36. Deschampsia pusilla Petrie - New Zealand South Island
  37. Deschampsia robusta C.E.Hubb. - Tristan da Cunha
  38. Deschampsia setacea (Huds.) Hack. - northern + western Europe
  39. Deschampsia tenella Petrie - New Zealand
  40. Deschampsia venustula Parodi - Chile, Argentina
  41. Deschampsia wacei C.E.Hubb.- Tristan da Cunha
formerly included[5]

numerous species now regarded a better suited to other genera: Aira Antinoria Bromus Calamagrostis Centropodia Colpodium Dissanthelium Holcus Periballia Peyritschia Poa Trisetum Vahlodea

References

  1. ↑ illustration circa 1920 from Bilder ur Nordens Flora / (1917-1926) Author: C. A. M. Lindman
  2. ↑ "Genus: Deschampsia P. Beauv.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
  3. ↑ lectotype designated by Nash in N. L. Britton et A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N.U.S. ed. 2. 1: 215. 7 Jun (1913)
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Deschampsia P.Beauv.
  5. 1 2 3 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  6. ↑ "Deschampsia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
  7. 1 2 Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 91 descriptions in Latin, etymology explained in French
  8. ↑ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie, plate XVIII (18) figure III (3) line drawing of Deschampsia cespitosa
  9. ↑ Jstor Deschamps, Louis Auguste (1765-1842)

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