Vahlodea

Vahlodea is a monotypic genus of plants in the grass family. The only known species is Vahlodea atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Fr.[2]

Vahlodea
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: Holcinae
Genus: Vahlodea
Fr.
Species:
V. atropurpurea
Binomial name
Vahlodea atropurpurea
(Wahlenb.) Fr.
Synonyms[1]
  • Aira alpina Vahl
  • Aira atropurpurea Wahlenb.
  • Aira atropurpurea var. magellanica (Hook.f.) Skottsb.
  • Aira latifolia Hook.
  • Aira magellanica Hook.f.
  • Avena atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Link
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Scheele
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea var. minor Vasey
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea var. paramushirensis Kudô
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea subsp. paramushirensis (Kudô) T.Koyama
  • Deschampsia atropurpurea var. payettii Lepage
  • Deschampsia brachyphylla Phil.
  • Deschampsia hookeriana Scribn.
  • Deschampsia latifolia (Hook.) Vasey
  • Deschampsia pacifica Tatew. & Ohwi
  • Erioblastus paramushirensis (Kudô) Honda
  • Holcus atropurpureus (Wahlenb.) Wahlenb.
  • Vahlodea atropurpurea subsp. latifolia (Hook.) A.E.Porsild
  • Vahlodea atropurpurea var. patentissima Hultén
  • Vahlodea latifolia (Hook.) Hultén
  • Vahlodea latifolia subsp. paramushirensis (Kudô) Elven
  • Vahlodea magellanica (Hook.f.) Tzvelev
  • Vahlodea paramushirensis (Kudô) Roshev.

Its native range is the subarctic (such as Greenland), to temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere. From (Europe within; Finland, North European Russia, Norway and Sweden,) to Asia within (Japan, Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Magadan and Taiwan,) and in North America (within the Canadian provinces of; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec and Yukon and within the USA states of; Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming,) and also southern South America (within Argentina and Chile).[2]

The genus name of Vahlodea is in honour of Jens Vahl (1796–1854), a Danish botanist and pharmacist.[3] The Latin specific epithet of atropurpurea means "dark-purple coloured".[4] Both the genus and the sole species were first described and published in Bot. Not. (1842) Vol.141 on page 178 in 1842.[2]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, and they list Vahlodea atropurpurea as the known species.[5]

It was thought to be a synonym of Deschampsia P. Beauv.,[6][7] but Chiapella, J. 2007. A molecular phylogenetic study of Deschampsia (Poaceae: Aveneae) inferred from nuclear ITS and plastid trnL sequence data: support for the recognition of Avenella and Vahlodea. Taxon 56:55-64.[5]

References
  1. "Vahlodea atropurpurea (Wahlenb.) Fr". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  2. "Vahlodea Fr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
  5. "Species of Vahlodea Fr". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California
  7. Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2
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