Molinia

Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.[4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.[5][6][7]

Molinia
Molinia caerulea (right)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Arundinoideae
Tribe: Molinieae
Subtribe: Moliniinae
Genus: Molinia
Schrank
Type species
Molinia varia
Synonyms[3]
  • Monilia A.Gray
  • Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
  • Moliniopsis Hayata
  • Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.

Species[3][8]
formerly included[3]

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

References

  1. 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
  2. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
  5. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
  6. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
  7. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
  8. The Plant List search for Molinia


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