Stipa ichu

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Stipa

Perennials , forming dense tussocks , old basal sheaths persistent . Leaf blades filiform to setaceous , convolute, abaxial surface smooth or scabrid , adaxial surface prominently ribbed . Inflorescence usually a contracted panicle, enclosed in uppermost leaf sheath or shortly exserted, spikelets few. Spikelets with one floret, bisexual ; glumes subequal , hyaline or membranous, much longer than floret, 3-5-veined, long acuminate; callus pungent , shortly bearded ; lemma narrowly lanceolate, terete , usually leathery, (3-) 5-veined, hairy , margins overlapping, apex entire; awn articulated at lemma apex and deciduous at maturity, scabrid to plumose , 1-2-geniculate, column tightly twisted, bristle straight, flexuous or curling; palea subequaling lemma, hyaline, enclosed within lemma. Lodicules 2 or 3, lanceolate. Stamens 3, anthers glabrous or shortly hairy at apex. Stigmas 2.

About 100 species: temperate and warm-temperate regions of Asia and Europe, in dry, open habitats ; 23 species (three endemic) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,107 meters (0 to 16,755 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Place of publication : Révis. gramin. 1:60. 1829

Name verified on 10-Jul-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-May-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Stipa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 25 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

S. barbata 'Silver Feather' (Feather Grass) · S. brachytricha (Korean Feather Reed Grass) · S. calamagrostis (Feather Grass) · S. capillata (Needle Grass) · S. capillata 'Bridal Veil' (Needle Grass) · S. caucasica glareosa (Needlegrass) · S. comata var. comata (Needleandthread) · S. coronata var. coronata (Crested Stipa) · S. elegantissima (Australian Needlegrass) · S. gigantea (Giant Oats Or Spanish Oats) · S. glareosa glareosa (Needlegrass) · S. grandis (Needlegrass) · S. ichu (Peruvian Feathergrass) · S. klemenzii (Needlegrass) · S. krylovii (Needlegrass) · S. lasiagrostis (Nelson's Needlegrass) · S. lepida var. lepida (Foothill Needlegrass) · S. lessoniana (Feather Grass) · S. neaei (Feathergrass) · S. occidentalis var. occidentalis (Western Needlegrass) · S. pennata (Feather Grass) · S. pulcherrima (Feather Grass) · S. ramosissima (Pillar of Smoke) · S. rudis (Spear-Grass) · S. tenacissima (Esparto)

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Further Reading

• Advances in the study of mammalian behavior / edited by John F. Eisenberg and Devra G. Kleiman. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists; 1983. url p. 587.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 106, p. 246, p. 344, p. 529.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 24 1931 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 259, p. 260, p. 269, p. 270, p. 281, p. 285, p. 297, p. 396, p. 398, p. 405, p. 519, p. 522, p. 523, p. 525, p. 530, p. 535, p. 537, p. 538, p. 540, p. 541, p. 542, p. 544, p. 546, p. 547, p. 549, p. 550, p. 552, p. 556, p. 599, p. 630, p. 729, p. 754, p. VII, p. XII.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1220, p. 786.
• Evolution of neotropical cricetine rodents (Muridae) with special reference to the phyllotine group. 46 1962 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1962. url p. 276.
• Family #15, Gramineae / Richard W. Pohl. 4 1980 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. url fig. 207 , p. 551, p. 552, p. 606.
• Family Asteraceae, part V: [tribe Inuleae] / Michael O. Dillon, Abundio Sagstegui Alva. 26 1991 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1991. url p. 16.
• Flora of Guatemala: part II: grasses of Guatemala / Jason R. Swallen; Bamboos / F.A. McClure. 24 1955 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1955. url p. 350, p. 352.
• Flora of Peru... by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1936 Chicago, 1936- url p. 179, p. 29.
• Flora, Tehuacn Valley [by] C. Earle Smith, Jr. 31 1965 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. url p. 114.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 298, p. 302, p. 306.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 22 2002 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 107, p. 218.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 665, p. 665.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 223, p. 26, p. 291, p. 31, p. 320, p. 378, p. 380, p. 394, p. 87.
• Protected Landscapes: experience around the world. Prepared for the International Symposium on Protected Landscapes, Grange-over-Sands, England 5-10 October 1987 IUCN url p. 357.
• The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea) IUCN url p. 217, p. 217.
• The ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean community in southern Peru / Christine Franquemont. .. [et al.]. 24 1990 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1990. url fig. 29 , p. 10, p. 113, p. 73.
• Tropical American plants, IX / Louis O. Williams. 31 1968 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. url p. 6.
• Verffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung Mnchen. 3 1955 Mnchen: Die Staatssammlung, url p. 84.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15776652
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:423409-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 35657
• MoBot NameID: 25512983
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: STIC
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 64615

Footnotes

1. "Stipa". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 188, 196, 204, 206, 210, 211. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 2,716.420 meters (8,912.139 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,418.760 based on 146 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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