Poaceae
Family in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
Digitised Reference Slides
Distribution
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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