Koeleria splendens

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Genus Koeleria

Perennials , tufted , sometimes shortly rhizomatous . Culms unbranched. Leaf sheaths of tillering leaves usually closed ; leaf blades mainly basal, narrow, flat, or inrolled and filiform to setaceous ; ligule membranous. Inflorescence a dense spikelike panicle, shining; branches short, erect , hispidulous to woolly . Spikelets with 2 to several florets ; rachilla puberulous or glabrous , disarticulating below each floret; glumes narrow, unequal or subequal , equaling or shorter than florets, strongly keeled , thinly herbaceous, 1-3(-5) -veined, margins broad, hyaline , shining; floret callus small, glabrous or very shortly hairy ; lemmas membranous or papery , strongly compressed , sharply keeled, 3-5-veined, margins hyaline, shining, apex obtuse to acuminate, awnless or with a subapical mucro ; palea subequaling lemma, hyaline, gaping free from lemma margins. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. Endosperm sometimes liquid.

About 35 species:temperate regions throughout the world, also on tropical mountains; four species in China.

This is a genus of narrowly defined, closely related species. They provide good forage in mountain steppe .[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,313 meters (0 to 7,589 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Koeleria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

K. argentea (Silver Hairgrass Koeleria Argentea) · K. asiatica (Eurasian Junegrass) · K. asiatica atroviolacea (Eurasian Junegrass) · K. atroviolacea atroviolacea (Eurasian Junegrass) · K. brevis (Blue Hairgrass Koeleria Brevis) · K. glauca (Large Blue Hair Grass Koeleria Glauca) · K. macrantha (June Grass Koeleria Macrantha)

More Info

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Further Reading

• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 823.
• Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2) Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988. url p. 105, p. 478.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 16, 2008:

• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
• GBIF-Spain: Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• Karl Franzens University of Graz, Insitute for Botany - Herbarium GZU: Herbarium GZU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5869761
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13848590
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:406710-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2088849

Footnotes

1. Zhen-lan Wu & Sylvia M. Phillips "Koeleria". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 282, 316, 330. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 714.600 meters (2,344.488 feet), Standard Deviation = 806.270 based on 10 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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