Rostraria
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| Rostraria | |
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| Rostraria cristata | |
Scientific classification 
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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] | |
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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.
- Rostraria azorica S.Hend. - Santa Maria in Azores
- Rostraria balansae (Coss. & Durieu) Holub - Algeria incl. Habibas Islands
- Rostraria berythea (Boiss. & Blanche) Holub - Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Israel
- Rostraria clarkeana (Domin) Holub - Jammu & Kashmir
- Rostraria cristata (Linn.) Tzvelev - Mediterranean hairgrass - Mediterranean, Sahara, and southwest Asia from Portugal + Cape Verde to northern India
- Rostraria hispida (Savi) Dogan - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Turkey
- Rostraria litorea (All.) Holub - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Greece
- Rostraria obtusiflora (Boiss.) Holub - from Crete to Tajikistan
- Rostraria pumila (Desf.) Tzvelev[9] from Canary Islands to Pakistan
- Rostraria rohlfsii (Asch.) Holub - Sahara (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Egypt)
- Rostraria salzmannii (Boiss.) Holub - Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
- Rostraria trachyantha (Phil.) Soreng - Peru, Chile
- formerly included[2]
see Avellinia Trisetaria
- Rostraria festucoides - Avellinia festucoides
- Rostraria laevis - Trisetaria panicea
- Rostraria neglecta - Trisetaria panicea
- Rostraria parviflora - Trisetaria parviflora
References
[edit]- ^ Tropicos, Rostraria Trin.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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
- ^ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae 149, §161
- ^ Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate XVII (17), figure VIII (8) line drawing of Rostraria cristata
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Rostraria". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Rostraria
- ^ The Plant List search for Rostraria
- ^ "Rostraria". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-06-15.