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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Aira

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.