Danthonia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Danthonia

California oat grass
common heathgrass
oatgrass
onespike danthonia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Danthonia

   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  Danthoniinae Fr.
pub. Fl. Scan.: 204. 1835.
  
   Genus  Danthonia DC.
pub. (1805)
common name: oatgrass
  

Named members of the Genus Danthonia

1
   Species  allenii Austin
syn. Danthonia compressa
2
   Species  americana Scribn.
syn. Danthonia californica
3
   Species  californica Boland.
common name: California oat grass
  
 
4
   Varietas  americana (Scribn.) A.S. Hitchc.
syn. Danthonia californica
5
   Varietas  palousensis St. John
syn. Danthonia californica
6
   Varietas  piperi St. John
syn. Danthonia californica
7
   Species  canadensis Baum & Findlay
syn. Danthonia intermedia
8
   Species  compressa Austin ex Peck
common name: flattened oatgrass
9
   Species  decumbens (L.) DC.
common name: common heathgrass
10
   Species  epilis Scribn.
common name: Carolina oatgrass
11
   Species  intermedia Vasey
 
12
   Varietas  cusickii Williams
syn. Danthonia intermedia
13
   Species  parryi Scribn.
common name: Parry's oatgrass
14
   Species  pilosa R. Br.
syn. Rytidosperma pilosum
15
   Species  purpurea (Thunb.) Beauv. ex Roemer & J.A. Schulte
syn. Karroochloa purpurea
16
   Species  semiannularis (Labill.) R. Br.
syn. Rytidosperma semiannulare
17
   Species  sericea Nutt.
 
18
   Varietas  epilis (Scribn.) Blomquist
syn. Danthonia epilis
19
   Species  spicata (L.) Beauv. ex Roemer & J.A. Schultes
 
20
   Varietas  longipila Scribn. & Merr.
syn. Danthonia spicata
21
   Varietas  pinetorum Piper
syn. Danthonia spicata
22
   Species  thermalis Scribn.
syn. Danthonia spicata
23
   Species  unispicata (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun
common name: onespike danthonia

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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