Genus of grasses
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 Georg Ludwig Koeler (1765–1807).[ 12]
Species[ 5] [ 13]
Koeleria altaica – Siberia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
Koeleria argentea – China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas
Koeleria asiatica – Russia, China incl Tibet, Mongolia, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories
Koeleria askoldensis – Primorye region of Russia incl Askold Island
Koeleria besseri – Europe from the Czech Republic to central European Russia
Koeleria biebersteinii – Crimea
Koeleria boliviensis – Bolivia
Koeleria brevis – Ukraine, Russia, Caucasus, Turkey
Koeleria calderonii – Argentina (Mendoza )
Koeleria capensis – Yemen, Africa from Ethiopia + Cameroon to Cape Province
Koeleria carolii – Morocco
Koeleria caudata – Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria
Koeleria cenisia – western Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland)
Koeleria cheesemanii – New Zealand
Koeleria crassipes – Spain, Portugal
Koeleria delavignei – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
Koeleria embergeri – Morocco
Koeleria eriostachya – Eurasia from Switzerland to Kazakhstan
Koeleria fueguina – Chile, Argentina
Koeleria glauca – Eurasia from France to Mongolia
Koeleria gubanovii – Amur Oblast in Russia
Koeleria hirsuta – central Alps (Italy, Switzerland, Austria)
Koeleria × hungarica – Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria
Koeleria inaequaliglumis – Argentina (Mendoza )
Koeleria insubrica – Italy, Croatia
Koeleria karavajevii – Yakutia
Koeleria kurtzii – Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
Koeleria loweana – Madeira
Koeleria lucana – Basilicata region of Italy
Koeleria luerssenii – Caucasus
Koeleria macrantha – Eurasia, North America
Koeleria mendocinensis – Argentina
Koeleria micrathera – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is
Koeleria × mixta – Great Britain
Koeleria nitidula – Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caucasus, Afghanistan
Koeleria novozelandica – New Zealand
Koeleria permollis – Falkland Is , Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru
Koeleria praeandina – Argentina (Mendoza )
Koeleria pyramidata – Eurasia from France + Denmark to Nepal + Yakutia
Koeleria rhodopea – Bulgaria
Koeleria riguorum – New Zealand South I
Koeleria skrjabinii – Yakutia
Koeleria splendens – Mediterranean from Spain + Morocco to Turkey
Koeleria thonii – Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk
Koeleria tzvelevii – Zabaykalsky Krai
Koeleria vallesiana – Europe, North Africa
Koeleria ventanicola – Argentina (Buenos Aires )
Koeleria vurilochensis – 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 .
^ 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" . Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-05-21 .
^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 330 草属 qia cao shu Koeleria Persoon, Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 1805.
^ |Altervista 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