Elymus (genus)
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Elymus
L. 1753 not J.Mitch. 1769
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Elymus is a genus of perennial plants in the grass family, related to rye, wheat, and other widely grown cereal grains.[3]
Elymus is widespread across much of Eurasia, North America, and the Americas. Common names include wildrye and wheatgrass.[4][5][6][7]
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- formerly included[2]
many species once considered members of Elymus but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Agropyron Anthosachne Brachypodium Cenchrus Crithopsis Heteranthelium Jouvea Kengyilia Leymus Psathyrostachys Stenostachys Taeniatherum Thinopyrum etc.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: The genus Elymus |
- USDA Plants Profile
- Jepson Manual Treatment
- Factsheet from The Intermountain Herbarium - Utah State University
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- ↑ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 121 (1929)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 83-84
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 400 披碱草属 pi jian cao shu Elymus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 83. 1753.
- ↑ Flora of Pakistan Elymus Linn., Sp. Pl. 1:83. 1753. Gen. Pl., ed. 5. 36. 1754; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 106. 1976; Melderis in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:192. 1980.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana genere Elymus photos and distribution maps for several species
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ↑ The Plant List search for Elymus
