Molinia, or 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]

Molinia
Molinia caerulea (right)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Arundinoideae
Tribe: Molinieae
Subtribe: Moliniinae
Genus: Molinia
Schrank
Type species
Molinia varia
Synonyms[3]
  • Monilia A.Gray
  • Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
  • Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.[8]

Species[3][9]
formerly included[3]

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

References

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  1. ^ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
  2. ^ 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
  5. ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
  6. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
  7. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
  8. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. ^ The Plant List search for Molinia