Molinia
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| Molinia caerulea (right)[1] | |
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Molinia
Schrank
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Molinia (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]
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.
- Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of USA + Canada
- Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril
- formerly included[3]
see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia
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- ↑ 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
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- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
- ↑ The Plant List search for Molinia
