Vulpia
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Vulpia

fescue

Hierarchical position of the Genus Vulpia

   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
  
   Familia  Gramineae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 28. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Vulpia C.C.Gmel.
common name: fescue

Named members of the Genus Vulpia

1
   Species  arida (Elmer) Henr.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. microstachys
2
   Species  bromoides (L.) S.F. Gray
common name: brome fescue
3
   Species  ciliata Link
common name: fringed fescue
4
   Species  confusa (Piper) Henr.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. confusa
5
   Species  dertonensis (All.) Gola
syn. Vulpia bromoides
6
   Species  eastwoodiae (Piper) Henr.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. ciliata
7
   Species  elliotea (Raf.) Fern.
syn. Vulpia sciurea
8
   Species  grayi (Piper) Henr.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. ciliata
9
   Species  megalura (Nutt.) Rydb.
syn. Vulpia myuros
10
   Species  microstachys (Nutt.) Munro
 
11
   Varietas  ciliata (Beal) Lonard & Gould
common name: Eastwood fescue
12
   Varietas  confusa (Piper) Lonard & Gould
common name: confusing fescue
13
   Varietas  microstachys
common name: desert fescue
14
   Varietas  pauciflora (Scribn. ex Beal) Lonard & Gould
common name: Pacific fescue
15
   Species  myuros (L.) K.C. Gmel.
 
16
   Varietas  hirsuta Hack.
syn. Vulpia myuros
17
   Species  octoflora (Walt.) Rydb.
 
18
   Varietas  glauca (Nutt.) Fern.
common name: sixweeks fescue
19
   Varietas  hirtella (Piper) Henr.
common name: sixweeks fescue
20
   Varietas  octoflora
common name: sixweeks fescue
21
   Varietas  tenella (Willd.) Fern.
syn. Vulpia octoflora var. glauca
22
   Species  pacifica (Piper) Rydb.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. pauciflora
23
   Species  reflexa (Buckl.) Rydb.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. pauciflora
24
   Species  sciurea (Nutt.) Henr.
common name: squirreltail fescue
25
   Species  tracyi (A.S. Hitchc.) Henr.
syn. Vulpia microstachys var. confusa

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

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

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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