Poaceae
Family in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
Digitised Reference Slides
We currently hold 80 digitised slide(s). Each record may contain multiple individual grains and images.
Identified Specimens
1 individual grains have been identified.
Distribution
© Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)True Grasses
Annual or perennial herbs, rarely woody, often with rhizomes or stolons. Culms usually cylindric, usually hollow but solid at the nodes. Leaves: alternate, 2-ranked, simple, consisting of sheath, ligule and lamina; sheath surrounding the stem, usually open; ligule usually present at junction of sheath and lamina, membranous, a row of hairs or 0; lamina linear to filiform, rarely lanceolate or ovat... © Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)
See more in the Encyclopedia of Life... Definition
- Genera
- Aegopogon
- Agrostis
- Aira
- Alopecurus
- Ammophila
- Anthoxanthum
- Arrhenatherum
- Avena
- Briza
- Bromus
- Catabrosa
- Cynosurus
- Dactylis
- Deschampsia
- Echinochloa
- Elymus
- Festuca
- Glyceria
- Helictotrichon
- Holcus
- Hordeum
- Koeleria
- Lagurus
- Leptaspis
- Leymus
- Lolium
- Milium
- Molinia
- Muhlenbergia
- Olyra
- Oplismenus
- Parapholis
- Phalaris
- Phleum
- Phragmites
- Piptochaetium
- Poa
- Secale
- Sesleria
- Spartina
- Triticum
- Vulpia
- Zea
- Zeugites
- Taxonomic Completion
5.80%
44 of 759 accepted Genera- Global Pollen Project UUID
- ca14d3b5-aefd-4747-b149-81c9406b709a
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources
This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.
The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility