Taxon: Thinopyrum ponticum (Podp.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey

Common names:

• rush wheatgrass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• tall wheatgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pontische Quecke   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• stumpfblütige Quecke   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• saltelm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide F NAmer)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for alkaline soils fide Grass VarUSA, as Elytrigia elongata)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA, as Elytrigia elongata)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA, as Elytrigia elongata)
  
• Gene sources: crop quality for wheat   (fide Genome 53:1083. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: potential for salt tolerance in wheat   (fide J Exp Bot 57:1072-1073. 2006)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat   (based on hybrids with Triticum aestivum fide Genome 39:1062. 1996)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [c. & s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Germany
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory [s.]
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chubut, La Pampa, Salta, Tierra del Fuego

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua
  Canada
  United States

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).
• Colmer, T. D. et al. 2006. Use of wild relatives to improve salt tolerance in wheat. J. Exp. Bot. 57:1059–1078.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). [= Elytrigia obtusifolia (DC.) Tzvelev].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. [mentions].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. [mentions].
• Jarvie, J. K. 1992. Taxonomy of Elytrigia sect. Caespitosae and sect. Junceae (Gramineae: Triticeae). Nordic J. Bot. 12:161. [= Elytrigia pontica (Podp.) Holub].
• Jiang, J. et al. 1994. Recent advances in alien gene transfer in wheat. Euphytica 73:199–212. [this review discussed "Agropyron elongatum" as a source of rust resistance for wheat].
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:654.
• Wang, R. R.-C. et al. 2010. Analyses of Thinopyrum bessarabicum, T. elongatum, and T. junceum chromosomes using EST-SSR markers. Genome 53:1083–1089. [mentions as a source of "valuable traits to wheat"].
• Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 77–108.
• Zhang. X. et al. 1996. Characterization of genomes and chromosomes in partial amphiploids of the hybrid Triticum aestivum × Thinopyrum ponticum by in situ hybridization, isozyme analysis, and RAPD. Genome 39:1062–1071.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thinopyrum ponticum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thinopyrum ponticum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thinopyrum ponticum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agropyron elongatum auct. nonn.
  
• (≡) Elymus elongatus subsp. ponticus (Podp.) Melderis
  
• (=) Elymus obtusiflorus (DC.) Conert
  
• (=) Elytrigia elongata auct. nonn.
  
• (≡) Elytrigia elongata subsp. pontica (Podp.) Gamisans
  
• (=) Elytrigia obtusiflora (DC.) Tzvelev
  
• (≡) Elytrigia pontica (Podp.) Holub
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)
• (≡) Lophopyrum ponticum (Podp.) Á. Löve
  
• (=) Thinopyrum elongatum auct. nonn.
  
• (=) Triticum giganteum Roth
  
• (=) Triticum obtusiflorum DC.
  
• (≡) Triticum ponticum Podp. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Thinopyrum ponticum (Podp.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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