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]

Species [3] [8]
Formerly included [3]

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 .

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