Milium (plant)

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Milium
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Milium effusum
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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: Miliinae
Dumort.
Genus: Milium
L. 1753 not Adans. 1763
Type species
Milium effusum
Synonyms [3]
  • MiliariumMoench

Milium (vernacular name milletgrass) is a genus of Eurasian, North American, and North African plants in the grass family. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Species

Source: [8] [3] [9]

Formerly included

Many species once included in Milium but now considered better suited to other genera: Achnatherum , Aeluropus , Agrostis , Airopsis , Alloteropsis , Amphicarpum , Aniselytron , Anthaenantia , Antinoria , Apera , Arundinella , Axonopus , Brachiaria , Cynodon , Digitaria , Echinochloa , Eriochloa , Eriocoma , Gastridium , Homolepis , Ichnanthus , Isachne , Luziola , Muhlenbergia , Nassella , Oplismenus , Oryzopsis , Panicum , Paspalum , Pentameris , Piptatherum , Piptochaetium , Poa , Polypogon , Sorghum , Sporobolus , Trachypogon , Tricholaena , Triplachne , Zingeria and Zoysia . [3]

References

  1. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 119. 1929
  2. Tropicos, Milium L.
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Milium
  6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 311 粟草属 su cao shu Milium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 61. 1753.
  7. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  8. "Vereadores". Portal CMBH (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  9. "Milium L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. Retrieved 12 February 2025.