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Taxon: Elymus caput-medusae L.

Synonym of Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski subsp. caput-medusae

Genus: Elymus
Family: Poaceae alt. Gramineae
Nomen number: 15033
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:84. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Oct-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 20-Nov-1998
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. (previously associated with 8 accessions)

THIS NAME HAS BEEN USED FOR A SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
Has been used for a declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents (see accepted name for other GRIN data):
ID°, OR°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.

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Check other databases for Elymus caput-medusae L.:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?15033 (21 November 2009)

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