| Molinia | |
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| Molinia caerulea (right)2 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Arundinoideae |
| Tribe: | Molinieae |
| Subtribe: | Moliniinae |
| Genus: | Molinia Schrank |
| Type species | |
| Molinia varia | |
| Synonyms3 | |
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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.567
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.8
- Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada
- Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril
- formerly included3
see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia
- Molinia aquatica - Catabrosa aquatica
- Molinia distans - Puccinellia distans
- Molinia distans var. reptans - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia fauriei - Diarrhena fauriei
- Molinia fluitans - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia maritima - Puccinellia maritima
- Molinia maxima - Glyceria maxima
- Molinia olgae - Festuca olgae
- Molinia pendulina - Arctophila fulva
- Molinia plicata - Glyceria fluitans
- Molinia remota - Poa remota
- Molinia retusa - Disakisperma dubium
- Molinia serotina - Cleistogenes serotina
- Molinia spiculosa - Glyceria spiculosa
- Molinia squarrosa - Cleistogenes squarrosa
References
References
- lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)
- 1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
- RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
- 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
- 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.
- The Plant List search for Molinia