Koeleria
| Junegrasses | |
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| Koeleria pyramidata (figure B at right)[4] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Poodae |
| Tribe: | Poeae |
| Subtribe: | |
| Genus: | Koeleria Pers.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Poa nitida (syn of Koeleria macrantha) | |
| Synonyms[5] | |
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Koeleria is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found on all continents except Antarctica and on various oceanic islands. It includes species known generally as Junegrasses.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
The genus was named after German botanist (1765–1807).[12]
- – Siberia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
- – China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas
- – Russia, China incl Tibet, Mongolia, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories
- – Primorye region of Russia incl Askold Island
- – Europe from Czechia to central European Russia
- – Crimea
- – Bolivia
- – Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Turkey
- – Argentina (Mendoza)
- – Yemen, Africa from Ethiopia + Cameroon to Cape Province
- – Morocco
- – Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria
- – western Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland)
- – New Zealand
- – Spain, Portugal
- Koeleria delavignei – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
- – Morocco
- – Eurasia from Switzerland to Kazakhstan
- – Chile, Argentina
- Koeleria glauca – Eurasia from France to Mongolia
- – Amur Oblast in Russia
- – central Alps (Italy, Switzerland, Austria)
- – Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria
- – Argentina (Mendoza)
- – Italy, Croatia
- – Yakutia
- – Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
- Koeleria loweana – Madeira
- – Basilicata region of Italy
- – Caucasus
- Koeleria macrantha – Eurasia, North America
- – Argentina
- – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is
- – Great Britain
- – Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caucasus, Afghanistan
- – New Zealand
- – Falkland Is, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru
- – Argentina (Mendoza)
- Koeleria pyramidata – Eurasia from France + Denmark to Nepal + Yakutia
- – Bulgaria
- – New Zealand South I
- – Yakutia
- – Mediterranean from Spain + Morocco to Turkey
- – Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk
- – Zabaykalsky Krai
- Koeleria vallesiana – Europe, North Africa
- – Argentina (Buenos Aires)
- – Argentina (Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz)
- Formerly included[5]
hundreds of species once included in Koeleria but now considered better suited to other genera including Aeluropus, Agrostis, Colpodium, Dactylis, Erioneuron, Festuca, Graphephorum, Rostraria, Schismus, Sesleria, Trisetaria and Trisetum.
References[]
- ^ Persoon, Christiaan Hendrik 1805. Synopsis Plantarum 1: 97
- ^ lectotype designated by Nash in Britton & Brown Ill. Fl. N. U. S. 1: 245 (1913)
- ^ Tropicos, Koeleria Pers.
- ^ 1885 illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé (author), Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile: genus Koeleria
- ^ Ada Hayden Herbarium, Iowa State University, junegrass (prairie junegrass, crested hairgrass, Koeler's grass) Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schult.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 330 草属 qia cao shu Koeleria Persoon, Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 1805.
- ^ Flora Italiana, genere Koeleria
- ^ Edgar, E. & E. S. Gibb. 1999. Koeleria Pers. (Gramineae: Aveneae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 51–61.
- ^ Quintanar, A. & S. Castroviejo Bolíbar. 2013 [2014]. Taxonomic revision of Koeleria (Poaceae) in the Western Mediterranean Basin and Macaronesia. Systematic Botany 38(4): 1029–1061, figures 1–13
- ^ Helmut Genaust (2005). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (3rd ed.). Hamburg: Nikol. ISBN 978-3-937872-16-2.
- ^ Plant List search for Koeleria
Categories:
- Pooideae
- Poaceae genera
- Grasses of Africa
- Grasses of Asia
- Grasses of Europe
- Grasses of North America
- Grasses of Oceania
- Grasses of South America
- Pooideae stubs