Koeleria

Junegrasses
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]
  • Collinaria Ehrh.
  • Airochloa Link
  • Brachystylus Dulac
  • Achaeta E.Fourn.
  • Leptophyllochloa Calderón ex Nicora

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]

Species[5][13]
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

  1. 1885 illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé (author), Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
  2. Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik 1805. Synopsis Plantarum 1: 97
  3. lectotype designated by Nash in Britton & Brown Ill. Fl. N. U. S. 1: 245 (1913)
  4. Tropicos, Koeleria Pers.
  5. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile: genus Koeleria
  7. Ada Hayden Herbarium, Iowa State University, junegrass (prairie junegrass, crested hairgrass, Koeler's grass) Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schult.
  8. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 330 草属 qia cao shu Koeleria Persoon, Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 1805.
  9. Flora Italiana, genere Koeleria
  10. Edgar, E. & E. S. Gibb. 1999. Koeleria Pers. (Gramineae: Aveneae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 51–61.
  11. 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
  12. Helmut Genaust (2005). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (3rd ed.). Hamburg: Nikol. ISBN 978-3-937872-16-2.
  13. Plant List search for Koeleria


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