Rostraria

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Rostraria
Rostraria smyrnacea 1.JPG
Rostraria cristata
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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: Rostraria
Trin. 1820
Type species
Rostraria pubescens
(syn of R. cristata) [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • AegialinaSchult.
  • LophochloaReichb.
  • AegialitisTrin. 1820, illegitimate homonym not R.Br. 1810 (Plumbaginaceae)
  • AegialinaSchult.
  • PoarionRchb.
  • LophochloaRchb.
  • WilhelmsiaK.Koch 1848, illegitimate homonym not Rchb. 1828 (Caryophyllaceae)
  • KtenosachneSteud.
  • ParodiochloaA.M.Molina 1986, illegitimate homonym not C.E. Hubb. 1981 (Poaceae)
  • RaimundochloaA.M.Molina
  • Trisetum unranked Rostraria(Trin.) Trin. [3]

Rostraria is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Eurasia and North Africa with one species native to South America. [4] [5] Hairgrass is a common name. [6]

These grasses are sometimes included in genus Koeleria .

Species [2] [7] [8]
formerly included [2]

see Avellinia Trisetaria

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  2. Micromeria albanica(K.Malý) Šilic - Albania, Yugoslavia
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  7. Micromeria biflora(Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Benth. - Himalayas from Afghanistan to Myanmar
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  9. Micromeria brivesiiBatt. - Morocco
  10. Micromeria × broussonetiiA.Santos, A.Acev.-Rodr. & Reyes-Bet. - Canary Islands (M. densiflora × M. varia)
  11. Micromeria browicziiZiel. & Kit Tan - Greece
  12. Micromeria chionistraeMeikle - Cyprus
  13. Micromeria conferta(Coss. & Daveau) Stefani - Libya
  14. Micromeria × confusaG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. lanata)
  15. Micromeria cremnophilaBoiss. & Heldr. - Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
  16. Micromeria cristata(Hampe) Griseb. - Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Iran, Cyprus
  17. Micromeria croatica(Pers.) Schott - Albania, Yugoslavia
  18. Micromeria cymuligeraBoiss. & Hausskn. - Turkey
  19. Micromeria danaensisDanin - Jordan
  20. Micromeria debilisPomel - Algeria, Morocco
  21. Micromeria densifloraBenth. - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
  22. Micromeria ellipticaK.Koch - Turkey
  23. Micromeria filiformis(Aiton) Benth. - Corsica, Sardinia, Balearic Islands
  24. Micromeria flacca(Nábelek) Hedge - Turkey, Iraq
  25. Micromeria flagellarisBaker - Madagascar
  26. Micromeria fontanesiiPomel - Algeria, Morocco
  27. Micromeria forbesiiBenth. - Cape Verde Islands
  28. Micromeria fruticosa(L.) Druce - Eastern Mediterranean
  29. Micromeria glomerataP.Pérez - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
  30. Micromeria graeca(L.) Benth. ex Rchb. - Mediterranean from Morocco + Portugal to Turkey
  31. Micromeria guichardii(Quézel & Zaffran) Brullo & Furnari - Libya
  32. Micromeria hedgeiRech.f. - Iran
  33. Micromeria helianthemifoliaWebb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  34. Micromeria herpyllomorphaWebb & Berthel. - La Palma in the Canary Islands
  35. Micromeria hispidaBoiss. & Heldr. ex Benth. - Crete
  36. Micromeria hochreutineri(Briq.) Maire - Algeria, Morocco
  37. Micromeria × hybridaZagan - Greece including Crete (M. graeca × M. nervosa)
  38. Micromeria hyssopifoliaWebb & Berthel. - Tenerife + El Hierro in the Canary Islands
  39. Micromeria imbricata (Forssk.)C.Chr. - Africa from Nigeria to Ethiopia to Transvaal, Arabian Peninsula
  40. Micromeria inodora(Desf.) Benth. - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Spain including Balearic Islands
  41. Micromeria × intermediaG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. helianthemifolia)
  42. Micromeria juliana(L.) Benth. ex Rchb. - Mediterranean
  43. Micromeria kerneriMurb. - Yugoslavia
  44. Micromeria lachnophyllaWebb & Berthel. - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
  45. Micromeria lanata(C.Sm. ex Link) Benth. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  46. Micromeria lasiophyllaWebb & Berthel. - Canary Islands
  47. Micromeria lepidaWebb & Berthel. La Gomera in the Canary Islands
  48. Micromeria leucanthaSvent. ex P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  49. Micromeria longipedunculataBräuchler - Yugoslavia, Albania
  50. Micromeria macrosiphonCoss. - Morocco
  51. Micromeria madagascariensisBaker - Madagascar
  52. Micromeria marginata(Sm.) Chater - Alpes Maritimes in France, Liguria + Sardinia in Italy
  53. Micromeria × meteoricaHausskn. - Greece (M. cremnophila × M. juliana)
  54. Micromeria microphylla(d'Urv.) Benth. - Balearic Islands, Sicily, Malta, southern mainland Italy, Crete, Cyprus, Libya
  55. Micromeria monantha(Font Quer) R.Morales - Morocco
  56. Micromeria myrtifoliaBoiss. & Hohen. - from Greece to Iran
  57. Micromeria nervosa(Desf.) Benth. - Mediterranean from Algeria + Balearic Islands to Turkey
  58. Micromeria × nogalesiiG.Kunkel & P.Pérez - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  59. Micromeria peltieri(Maire) R.Morales - Morocco
  60. Micromeria × perez-paziiG.Kunkel - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. tenuis)
  61. Micromeria persicaBoiss. - Iran, Iraq, Turkey
  62. Micromeria pineolensSvent. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  63. Micromeria × preauxiiWebb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (M. benthamii × M. varia subsp. canariensis)
  64. Micromeria pseudocroaticaŠilic - Yugoslavia
  65. Micromeria rivas-martineziiWildpret - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
  66. Micromeria serbalianaDanin & Hedge - Sinai
  67. Micromeria sinaicaBenth. - Sinai, Israel
  68. Micromeria sphacioticaBoiss. & Heldr. ex Benth.- Crete
  69. Micromeria sphaerophyllaBaker - Madagascar
  70. Micromeria suborbicularis(Alain) Borhidi - Cuba
  71. Micromeria × tagananensisP.Pérez - Tenerife in the Canary Islands (M. glomerata × M. varia)
  72. Micromeria teneriffae(Poir.) Benth. ex G.Don - Tenerife in the Canary Islands
  73. Micromeria tenuis(Link) Webb & Berthel. - Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands
  74. Micromeria unguentariaSchweinf. - Ethiopia
  75. Micromeria variaBenth. - Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands
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References

  1. Tropicos, Rostraria Trin.
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1830. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles 1(1): 65
  4. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae 149, §161
  5. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate XVII (17), figure VIII (8) line drawing of Rostraria cristata
  6. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rostraria". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Rostraria
  8. The Plant List search for Rostraria
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