Taxon: Hordeum murinum L. subsp. leporinum (Link) Arcang.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Hordeum murinum (21 accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. glaucum (29 accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. montanum (no accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. murinum (no accessions)
• Hordeum murinum subsp. setariurum (no accessions)

Common names:

• mouse barley   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• harkorn   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of barley   (fide Divers Barley 248. 2003)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.]; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - Astrakhan, Kalmykia, Volgograd; Ukraine [s. & Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [s. & c.]
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Germany; Slovakia; Switzerland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte
  Canada [s.]
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Amirouche, R. & M.-T. Misset. 2003. Hordein polymorphism in diploid and tetraploid Mediterranean populations of the Hordeum murinum L. complex. Pl. Syst. Evol. 242:83–99.
• Baum, B. R. et al. 2005. Ancient differentiation of the H & I haplomes in diploid Hordeum species based on 5S rDNA. Genome 48:610–618.
• Bothmer, R. von & N. Jacobsen. 1985. Origin, taxonomy, and related species. In: American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy; a series of monographs. 26:35.
• Bothmer, R. von et al., eds. 2003. Diversity in barley (Hordeum vulgare). Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding, vol. 7. [considers all wild species of Hordeum, except H. bulbosum, as part of the tertiary gene pool].
• Bothmer, R. von. 1996. Distribution and habitat preferences in the genus Hordeum in Iran and Turkey. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 98B(suppl.):114.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [= H. leporinum Link].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• De Bustos, A. et al. 1999. Analysis of the genetic diversity of wild Spanish populations of the genus Hordeum through the study of their endosperm proteins. Pl. Syst. Evol. 214:235–249.
• Doebley, J. et al. 1992. Chloroplast DNA variation and the phylogeny of Hordeum (Poaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 79:576–584.
• El-Rabey, H. A. et al. 2002. Speciation and species separation in Hordeum (Poaceae) resolved by discontinuous molecular markers. Pl. Biol. 4:567–575.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. [introduced].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= H. leporinum].
• Jacobsen, N. & R. von Bothmer. 1995. Taxonomy in the Hordeum murinum complex (Poaceae). Nordic J. Bot. 15:456.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Nishikawa, T. et al. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Hordeum using three chloroplast DNA sequences. Genome 45:1157–1166.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006–. Flora of the Lower Volga region. [treats as H. murinum L.].
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:396.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. 9:249–250. [as H. leporinum].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Critesion murinum subsp. leporinum (Link) Á. Löve
  
• (=) Hordeum hrasdanicum Gandilyan
  
• (≡) Hordeum leporinum Link (basionym)
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Hordeum leporinum var. simulans Bowden
  

Check other web resources for Hordeum murinum L. subsp. leporinum (Link) Arcang.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico

Images:

• Spikelet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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