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Briza
''Briza'' is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family, native to northern temperate regions of Eurasia, North Africa, and certain islands in the Atlantic. The group is generally referred to as the quaking grasses because the flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze. Some of its members are grown as ornamental plants. ''Briza'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Coleophora lixella''. ;Species * '' Briza humilis'' M.Bieb. – from Albania to Iran * '' Briza marcowiczii'' Woronow – Turkey, Caucasus * '' Briza maxima'' L. – Mediterranean, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands; naturalized in parts of Asia, Africa, Australia, the Americas, and certain oceanic islands * ''Briza media'' L. – Europe, Asia, North Africa, Azores, Canary Islands; naturalized in New Zealand and parts of North America * '' Briza minor'' L. – from Azores + Canary Islands to Iran; naturalized in parts of Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Briza Media
''Briza media'' is a perennial grass in the family Poaceae and is a species of the genus '' Briza''. Common name includes quaking-grass, common quaking grass, cow-quake, didder, dithering-grass, dodder-grass, doddering dillies, doddle-grass, earthquakes, jiggle-joggles, jockey-grass, lady's-hair, maidenhair-grass, pearl grass, quakers, quakers-and-shakers, shaking-grass, tottergrass, and wag-wantons. Description ''B. media'' flowers from June to September in the UK, and is characterised by its fine stems and distinctive hops-shaped green and purplish spikelets. The plant is a loosely tufted perennial with short rhizomes arising from vegetative shoots. The culms typically attain a height of 15 – 60 cm, while the hairless dull glaucous to mid-green leaves are usually 4 – 20 cm long, 2 – 4 cm wide. They possess minute forward-pointing hairs with a slender boat-shaped tip. The loose, roughly pyramidal panicles are 4 – 10 cm long, with up to 20 branches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Briza Maxima
''Briza maxima'' is a species of the grass genus ''Briza''. It is native to Northern Africa, Western Asia and Southern Europe and is cultivated or naturalised in the British Isles, the Azores, Australasia, the western United States, Central and South America, and Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta .... This species has a large number of common names, including big quaking grass, great quaking grass, greater quaking-grass, large quaking grass, blowfly grass, rattlesnake grass, shelly grass, rattle grass, and shell grass. It grows to a height of 60 cm. Their spikelets resemble those of the unrelated species '' Bromus briziformis.'' The seeds and leaves are edible. References Pooideae Grasses of Africa Grasses of Asia Bunchgrasses of Europe Plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Briza Minor
''Briza minor'' is a species of grass known by the common names lesser quaking-grass or little quakinggrass. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin, and it is known elsewhere, including much of North America, as an introduced species. It is an annual grass producing narrow clumps of erect stems up to 50 centimeters tall. The inflorescence bears several small cone-shaped spikelets, each hanging on a pedicel Pedicle or pedicel may refer to: Human anatomy *Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures .... References External links * Jepson Manual Treatment [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Neesiochloa
''Neesiochloa'' is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family. The only known species is ''Neesiochloa barbata''. It is native to eastern Brazil (Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Piauí). The genus name of ''Neesiochloa'' is in honour of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858), a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. The Latin specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ... of ''barbata'' refers to "barba" meaning bearded. References Chloridoideae Endemic flora of Brazil Grasses of South America Flora of Bahia Flora of Rio Grande do Norte Environment of Ceará Environment of Piauí Monotypic Poaceae genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Plants described in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chascolytrum
''Chascolytrum'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Latin America from Mexico to Chile (including the Juan Fernández Islands).Essi, L., T. T. Souza-Chies & H. M. Longhi-Wagner. 2011. Novon 21:327-329 Species Seven species are accepted. * '' Chascolytrum altimontanum'' Essi, Souza-Chies & Longhi-Wagner - Bolivia * '' Chascolytrum erectum'' (Lam.) Desv. - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina * '' Chascolytrum lamarckianum'' (Nees) Matthei - Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina * ''Chascolytrum neobulbosum'' – southern Brazil (Santa Catarina) * '' Chascolytrum paleapiliferum'' (Parodi) Matthei - northern Argentina * '' Chascolytrum scabrum'' (Nees ex Steud.) Matthei - southern Brazil * '' Chascolytrum subaristatum'' (Lam.) Desv. - Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Chile (including the Juan Fernández Islands), Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil, Uruguay; naturalised in Cape Province and in New South Wales Formerly placed here Many species formerly placed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Halopyrum
''Halopyrum'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. The only known species is ''Halopyrum mucronatum'', native to the Indian Subcontinent, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Socotra, Madagascar, and eastern + northeastern Africa (from Egypt to Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...).Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève References Chloridoideae Monotypic Poaceae genera {{Chloridoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Airopsis
''Airopsis'' is a genus of southern European and northern African plants in the grass family. ;Species The only accepted species is ''Airopsis tenella'', native to the western Mediterranean: Portugal, Spain, France incl Corsica, Italy incl Sicily, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco. ;formerly included Numerous other species were once included in ''Airopsis'' but are now regarded as better suited to other genera, including ''Aira Antinoria Dissanthelium Eragrostis Pentameris Periballia Poa Sphenopholis'' See also * List of Poaceae genera Poaceae, also known as the true grasses, is the fourth largest plant family in the world with around 12,000 species and roughly 800 genera. They contain, among others, the cereal crop species and other plants of economic importance, such as the b ... References Pooideae Monotypic Poaceae genera Taxa named by Nicaise Auguste Desvaux {{Pooideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Plant List
The Plant List was a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010. It was intended to be a comprehensive record of all known names of plant species over time, and was produced in response to Target 1 of the 2002–2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSP C), to produce "An online flora of all known plants". It has not been updated since 2013, and has been superseded by World Flora Online. World Flora Online In October 2012, the follow-up project World Flora Online was launched with the aim to publish an online flora of all known plants by 2020. This is a project of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of halting the loss of plant species worldwide by 2020. It is developed by a collaborative group of institutions around the world response to the 2011-2020 GSPC's updated Target 1. This aims to achieve an online Flora of all known plants by 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Glyceria
''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of Poaceae, grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial Rhizome, rhizomatous grasses found in wet areas in temperate regions worldwide. The base of the grass grows along the ground and may root at several places. Then it grows erect and bears leaf blades which may be flat or folded. The panicle inflorescences nod when heavy. Some mannagrasses are considered weeds while others are endangered in their native habitats.Whipple, I. G. et al. (2007)Molecular insights into the taxonomy of ''Glyceria'' (Poaceae: Meliceae) in North America.American Journal of Botany 94(4) 551-57.Rodionov, A. V., et al. (2013)Variability of the ITS1-5.8 S rDNA-ITS2 sequence during the divergence of sweet-grass species (''Glyceria'' R.Br.).Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research 3(2) 83-90. ; Species * ''Glyceria acut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eragrostis
''Eragrostis'' is a large and widespread genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands. ''Eragrostis'' is commonly known as lovegrass or canegrass. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek language, Greek words ἔρως (''érōs''), meaning "love", and ἄγρωστις (''ágrōstis''), meaning "grass". Lovegrass is commonly used as livestock fodder. The seeds appear to be of high nutritional value for some animals, but they are also very tiny and collecting them for human food is cumbersome and hence uncommon. A notable exception is Eragrostis tef, teff (''Eragrostis tef, E. tef''), which is used to make traditional breads on the Horn of Africa, such as Ethiopian ''injera'' and Somalian ''laxoox''. It is a crop of commercial importance. ''Eragrostis clelandii, E. clelandii'' and ''Eragrostis tremula, E. tremula'' are recorded as famine foods in Australia and Chad, respectively. Other species, such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |