Micropyrum

Genus of grasses

Micropyrum
Black and white drawing of Micropyrum tenellum. a wheat/grass-like plant, it is long and thin with thin sharp leaves and with bushels of seeds at the top
Drawing of Micropyrum tenellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Monocots
(unranked):
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Genus:
Micropyrum

(Gaudin) Link
Type species
Triticum tenellum
L.
Synonyms[1]
  • Triticum sect. Micropyrum Gaudin
  • Catapodium sect. Micropyrum (Gaudin) Maire & Weiller
  • Festuca sect. Micropyrum (Gaudin) Asch. & Graebn.

Micropyrum is a genus of European and North African plants in the grass family.[2][3][4]

Species[5][6]
formerly included[5]

see Castellia Catapodium Vulpia

  • Micropyrum mamoraeum - Catapodium mamoraeum
  • Micropyrum tenellum f. aristatum - Vulpia unilateralis
  • Micropyrum tenellum var. aristatum - Vulpia unilateralis
  • Micropyrum tuberculosum - Castellia tuberculosa

References

  1. ^ Tropicos, Micropyrum (Gaudin) Link
  2. ^ Link, Johann Heinrich Friedrich. 1844. Linnaea 17(4) 397-398 in Latin
  3. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Micropyrum tenellum (L.) Link
  4. ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Micropyrum
Taxon identifiers
Micropyrum
Triticum sect. Micropyrum
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