Arrhenatherum
| oatgrass button-grass | |
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tall oatgrass (Arrhenatherum elatius) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Tribe: | Poeae |
| Subtribe: | Aveninae |
| Genus: | Arrhenatherum P.Beauv. |
Type species | |
Arrhenatherum avenaceum P.Beauv. ex Boiss.[1][2] | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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Arrhenatherum, commonly called oatgrass or button-grass, is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in grass family.[4][5][6][7]
Description
Wild forms can resemble wild oat (Avena) or fescue (Festuca). Oatgrasses are very common perennials with yellowish roots. The shining stems grow to a height of 1.5 meters, but die off in winter. The leaves are hairless with blunt ligules. The inflorescence is a panicle with two-flowered bisexual spikelets.[8]
- Species[3][9]
Arrhenatherum album - tall oatgrass - Mediterranean from Portugal to Cyprus
Arrhenatherum calderae - Tenerife in Canary Islands
Arrhenatherum elatius - false oatgrass, tall oatgrass, tall meadow oat - Eurasia + North Africa from Iceland to Canary Islands + Kazakhstan; naturalized in East Asia,[10] Australia,[11] New Zealand, the Americas[12][13]
Arrhenatherum kotschyii - Turkey, Caucasus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
Arrhenatherum longifolium - France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco
Arrhennatherum palaestinum - eastern Mediterranean from Greece to Iraq
Arrhenatherum pallens - Portugal
- formerly included[3]
numerous species now considered better suited to other genera: Avenula Danthoniastrum Duthiea Helictochloa Helictotrichon Sphenopholis
See also
- List of Poaceae genera
References
^ lectotype designated by L.K. Pfeiffer, Nom. 1: 274 (1872)
^ Tropicos, Arrhenatherum P. Beauv.
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^ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The Grass Genera of the World: Arrhenatherum". The Grass Genera of the World. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 55-56 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plate XI (11), figure V (5) at lower left line drawings of Arrhenatherum avenaceum
^ Altervista Flora Italiana genere Arrhenatherum
^ Valdes, B. & H. Scholz. 2006. The Euro+Med treatment of Gramineae - a generic synopsis and some new names. Willdenowia 36(2): 657–669
^ The Plant List search for Arrhenatherum
^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 322 燕麦草属 yan mai cao shu Arrhenatherum P. Beauvois
^ Atlas of Living Australia, Oatgrass, Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P.Beauv. ex J.Presl & C.Presl
^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
^ Rosengurtt, B., B. R. A. Maffei & P. I. Artucio. 1970. Gramíneas Uruguayas [i–vii], 1–489. Universidad de la República, Montevideo
