Rostraria

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]

Rostraria
Rostraria cristata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]
  • Aegialina Schult.
  • Lophochloa Reichb.
  • Aegialitis Trin. 1820, illegitimate homonym not R.Br. 1810 (Plumbaginaceae)
  • Aegialina Schult.
  • Poarion Rchb.
  • Lophochloa Rchb.
  • Wilhelmsia K.Koch 1848, illegitimate homonym not Rchb. 1828 (Caryophyllaceae)
  • Ktenosachne Steud.
  • Parodiochloa A.M.Molina 1986, illegitimate homonym not C.E. Hubb. 1981 (Poaceae)
  • Raimundochloa A.M.Molina
  • Trisetum unranked Rostraria (Trin.) Trin.[3]

These grasses are sometimes included in genus Koeleria.

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

see Avellinia Trisetaria

  • Rostraria festucoides - Avellinia festucoides
  • Rostraria laevis - Trisetaria panicea
  • Rostraria neglecta - Trisetaria panicea
  • Rostraria parviflora - Trisetaria parviflora

References

  1. Tropicos, Rostraria Trin.
  2. 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
  9. "Rostraria". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-06-15.


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