Koeleria

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Junegrasses
Illustration Koeleria pyramidata0.jpg
Koeleria pyramidata
(figure B at right) [1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Poodae
Tribe: Poeae
Subtribe: Aveninae
Genus: Koeleria
Pers. [2]
Type species
Poa nitida
(syn of Koeleria macrantha )
Synonyms [5]
  • AchaetaE.Fourn.
  • AirochloaLink
  • BrachystylusDulac
  • CollinariaEhrh.
  • LeptophyllochloaCalderón 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 .

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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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