Molinia | |
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Molinia caerulea (right) [2] | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Arundinoideae |
Tribe: | Molinieae |
Subtribe: | Moliniinae |
Genus: |
Molinia Schrank |
Type species | |
Molinia varia | |
Synonyms [3] | |
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Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa. [4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses. [5] [6] [7]
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist. [8]
see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia
Molinia | |
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![]() | |
Molinia caerulea (right) [2] | |
Scientific classification
![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Arundinoideae |
Tribe: | Molinieae |
Subtribe: | Moliniinae |
Genus: |
Molinia Schrank |
Type species | |
Molinia varia | |
Synonyms [3] | |
|
Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa. [4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses. [5] [6] [7]
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist. [8]
see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia