Rostraria

Rostraria
Rostraria cristata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
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]
  1. Rostraria azorica S.Hend. - Santa Maria in Azores
  2. Rostraria balansae (Coss. & Durieu) Holub - Algeria incl. Habibas Islands
  3. Rostraria berythea (Boiss. & Blanche) Holub - Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Israel
  4. Rostraria clarkeana (Domin) Holub - Jammu & Kashmir
  5. Rostraria cristata (Linn.) Tzvelev - Mediterranean hairgrass - Mediterranean, Sahara, and southwest Asia from Portugal + Cape Verde to northern India
  6. Rostraria hispida (Savi) Dogan - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Turkey
  7. Rostraria litorea (All.) Holub - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Greece
  8. Rostraria obtusiflora (Boiss.) Holub - from Crete to Tajikistan
  9. Rostraria pumila (Desf.) Tzvelev[9] from Canary Islands to Pakistan
  10. Rostraria rohlfsii (Asch.) Holub - Sahara (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Egypt)
  11. Rostraria salzmannii (Boiss.) Holub - Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
  12. Rostraria trachyantha (Phil.) Soreng - Peru, Chile
formerly included[2]

see Avellinia Trisetaria

References

  1. ↑ Tropicos, Rostraria Trin.
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1830. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles 1(1): 65
  4. ↑ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae 149, §161
  5. ↑ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate XVII (17), figure VIII (8) line drawing of Rostraria cristata
  6. ↑ "Rostraria". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Rostraria
  8. ↑ The Plant List search for Rostraria
  9. ↑ "Rostraria". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-06-15.
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