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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Aira

hair grass
yellow hairgrass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Aira

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Subtribus  Airinae Fr.
pub. Fl. Scan.: 196, 198. 1835.
  
   Genus  Aira L.
pub. (1753)
common name: hairgrass
  

Named members of the Genus Aira

1
   Species  aquatica L.
syn. Catabrosa aquatica
2
   Species  atropurpurea Wahlenb.
syn. Vahlodea atropurpurea
3
   Species  caerulea L.
syn. Molinia caerulea
4
   Species  caespitosa L.
syn. Deschampsia caespitosa
5
   Species  canescens L.
syn. Corynephorus canescens
6
   Species  capillaris Host, non Savi
syn. Aira elegans
7
   Species  caryophyllea L.
 
8
   Varietas  capillaris (Host) Mutel
syn. Aira elegans
9
   Species  cespitosa L. [orthographic variant]
syn. Deschampsia caespitosa
10
   Species  danthonioides Trin.
syn. Deschampsia danthonioides
11
   Species  elegans Willd. ex Kunth
common name: hair grass
  
 
12
   Subspecies  ambigua (Arcang.) Holub
syn. Aira elegans
13
   Species  elegantissima Schur
syn. Aira elegans
14
   Species  elongata Hook.
syn. Deschampsia elongata
15
   Species  flexuosa L.
syn. Deschampsia flexuosa var. flexuosa
16
   Species  holciformis (J. Presl) Steud.
syn. Deschampsia holciformis
17
   Species  indica L.
syn. Sacciolepis indica
18
   Species  obtusata Michx.
syn. Sphenopholis obtusata
19
   Species  praecox L.
common name: yellow hairgrass
20
   Species  spicata L.
syn. Trisetum spicatum

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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