Koeleria
| Junegrasses | |
|---|---|
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| Koeleria pyramidata (figure B at right)[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Tribe: | Aveneae |
| Genus: | Koeleria Pers.[2] |
| Type species | |
| Poa nitida (syn of Koeleria macrantha) Lam.[3][4] | |
| Synonyms[5] | |
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Koeleria is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found on all continents except Antarctica and on various oceanic islands. It includes species known generally as Junegrasses.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
The genus was named after German botanist Georg Ludwig Koeler (1765–1807).[12]
- Koeleria altaica – Siberia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
- Koeleria argentea – China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas
- Koeleria asiatica – Russia, China incl Tibet, Mongolia, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories
- Koeleria askoldensis – Primorye region of Russia incl Askold Island
- Koeleria besseri – Europe from Czech Rep to central European Russia
- Koeleria biebersteinii – Crimea
- Koeleria boliviensis – Bolivia
- Koeleria brevis – Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Turkey
- Koeleria calderonii – Argentina (Mendoza)
- Koeleria capensis – Yemen, Africa from Ethiopia + Cameroon to Cape Province
- Koeleria carolii – Morocco
- Koeleria caudata – Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria
- Koeleria cenisia – western Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland)
- Koeleria cheesemanii – New Zealand
- Koeleria crassipes – Spain, Portugal
- Koeleria delavignei – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
- Koeleria embergeri – Morocco
- Koeleria eriostachya – Eurasia from Switzerland to Kazakhstan
- Koeleria fueguina – Chile, Argentina
- Koeleria glauca – Eurasia from France to Mongolia
- Koeleria gubanovii – Amur Oblast in Russia
- Koeleria hirsuta – central Alps (Italy, Switzerland, Austria)
- Koeleria × hungarica – Czech Rep, Romania, Bulgaria
- Koeleria inaequaliglumis – Argentina (Mendoza)
- Koeleria insubrica – Italy, Croatia
- Koeleria karavajevii – Yakutia
- Koeleria kurtzii – Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
- Koeleria loweana – Madeira
- Koeleria lucana – Basilicata region of Italy
- Koeleria luerssenii – Caucasus
- Koeleria macrantha – Eurasia, North America
- Koeleria mendocinensis – Argentina
- Koeleria micrathera – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is
- Koeleria × mixta – Great Britain
- Koeleria nitidula – Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caucasus, Afghanistan
- Koeleria novozelandica – New Zealand
- Koeleria permollis – Falkland Is, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru
- Koeleria praeandina – Argentina (Mendoza)
- Koeleria pyramidata – Eurasia from France + Denmark to Nepal + Yakutia
- Koeleria rhodopea – Bulgaria
- Koeleria riguorum – New Zealand South I
- Koeleria skrjabinii – Yakutia
- Koeleria splendens – Mediterranean from Spain + Morocco to Turkey
- Koeleria thonii – Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk
- Koeleria tzvelevii – Zabaykalsky Krai
- Koeleria vallesiana – Europe, North Africa
- Koeleria ventanicola – Argentina (Buenos Aires)
- Koeleria vurilochensis – Argentina (Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz)
- Formerly included[5]
hundreds of species once included in Koeleria but now considered better suited to other genera including Aeluropus, Agrostis, Colpodium, Dactylis, Erioneuron, Festuca, Graphephorum, Rostraria, Schismus, Sesleria, Trisetaria and Trisetum.
References
- ↑ 1885 illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé (author), Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ↑ Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik 1805. Synopsis Plantarum 1: 97
- ↑ lectotype designated by Nash in Britton & Brown Ill. Fl. N. U. S. 1: 245 (1913)
- ↑ Tropicos, Koeleria Pers.
- 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile: genus Koeleria
- ↑ Ada Hayden Herbarium, Iowa State University, junegrass (prairie junegrass, crested hairgrass, Koeler's grass) Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schult.
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 330 草属 qia cao shu Koeleria Persoon, Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 1805.
- ↑ Flora Italiana, genere Koeleria
- ↑ Edgar, E. & E. S. Gibb. 1999. Koeleria Pers. (Gramineae: Aveneae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 51–61.
- ↑ Quintanar, A. & S. Castroviejo Bolíbar. 2013 [2014]. Taxonomic revision of Koeleria (Poaceae) in the Western Mediterranean Basin and Macaronesia. Systematic Botany 38(4): 1029–1061, figures 1–13
- ↑ Helmut Genaust (2005). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (3rd ed.). Hamburg: Nikol. ISBN 978-3-937872-16-2.
- ↑ Plant List search for Koeleria
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