Molinia
| moor grass | |
|---|---|
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| Molinia caerulea (right)[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Molinia Schrank (syn of M. caerulea) |
| Type species | |
| Molinia varia Schrank[2] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Molinia (moor grass) is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.[4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.[5][6][7]
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.
- Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of USA + Canada
- Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril
- formerly included[3]
see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia
- Molinia aquatica - Catabrosa aquatica
- Molinia distans - Puccinellia distans
- Molinia distans var. reptans - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia fauriei - Diarrhena fauriei
- Molinia fluitans - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia maritima - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia maxima - Glyceria maxima
- Molinia olgae - Festuca olgae
- Molinia pendulina - Arctophila fulva
- Molinia plicata - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia remota - Poa remota
- Molinia retusa - Disakisperma dubium
- Molinia serotina - Cleistogenes serotina
- Molinia spiculosa - Glyceria spiculosa
- Molinia squarrosa - Cleistogenes squarrosa
References
- ↑ 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
- 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
- ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
- ↑ The Plant List search for Molinia
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