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Molinia

moor grass
Illustration Molinia caerulea0.jpg
Molinia caerulea (right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Molinia
Schrank
(syn of M. caerulea)
Type species
Molinia varia
Schrank
Synonyms
  • Monilia A.Gray
  • Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
  • Moliniopsis Hayata
  • Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

Molinia (moor grass) is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa. They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia



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