Piptatherum

ricegrass
Piptatherum paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Stipoideae
Genus:	Piptatherum P.Beauv.
Type species
Piptatherum coerulescens (Desf.) P.Beauv.[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Urachne Trin. Oryzopsis sect. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Benth. & Hook.f. Urachne subg. Piptatherum (P.Beauv.) Trin. & Rupr.

Piptatherum is a genus of plants in the grass family known as ricegrass.^[4][5]

They are widely distributed across much of Eurasia, North Africa, and North America. These are clumping perennial grasses with long, tapering leaf blades.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Species^[2][12]

1. Piptatherum aequiglume
2. Piptatherum alpestre
3. Piptatherum angustifolium
4. Piptatherum baluchistanicum
5. Piptatherum barbellatum
6. Piptatherum blancheanum
7. Piptatherum canadense
8. Piptatherum coerulescens
9. Piptatherum ferganense
10. Piptatherum flaccidum
11. Piptatherum gracile
12. Piptatherum grandispiculum
13. Piptatherum grigorjevii
14. Piptatherum hilariae
15. Piptatherum holciforme
16. Piptatherum kopetdagense
17. Piptatherum kuoi
18. Piptatherum laterale
19. Piptatherum latifolium
20. Piptatherum micranthum
21. Piptatherum microcarpum
22. Piptatherum miliaceum
23. Piptatherum molinioides
24. Piptatherum munroi
25. Piptatherum pamiralaicum
26. Piptatherum paradoxum
27. Piptatherum platyanthum
28. Piptatherum pungens
29. Piptatherum purpurascens
30. Piptatherum rechingeri
31. Piptatherum roshevitsianum
32. Piptatherum sogdianum
33. Piptatherum songaricum
34. Piptatherum tibeticum
35. Piptatherum virescens

formerly included^[2]

see Achnatherum Arundinella Eriochloa Nassella Oryzopsis Piptatheropsis Piptochaetium Stipa

References

1. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 156 (1920)
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Tropicos, Piptatherum P.Beauv.
4. Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 17-18 in Latin
5. Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate V(5), figures X (10 a-k) line drawings of Piptatherum coerulescens (captions on caption page 5)
6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 192 落芒草属 luo mang cao shu Piptatherum P. Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 17. 1812.
7. Flora of Pakistan
8. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Piptatherum
9. Jepson Manual Treatment
10. USDA Plants Profile
11. Grass Manual Treatment
12. The Plant List search for Piptatherum