Piptatherum

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Piptatherum
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Piptatherum paradoxum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Supertribe: Stipodae
Tribe: Stipeae
Genus: Piptatherum
P.Beauv.
Type species
Piptatherum coerulescens
Synonyms [2] [3]
  • UrachneTrin.
  • 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]
formerly included [2]

see Achnatherum Arundinella Eriochloa Nassella Oryzopsis Piptatheropsis Piptochaetium Stipa

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References

  1. ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 156 (1920)
  2. 1 2 3 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". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
  12. ↑ The Plant List search for Piptatherum
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