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Taxon: Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth

Genus: Nassella
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Stipeae.
Nomen number: 402091
Place of publication: Taxon 39:611. 1990
Name verified on: 14-Apr-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-Apr-2009
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • purple needlegrass   (Source: Grass US [as Stipa pulchra]) – English
  • flechilha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Stipa pulchra]) – Portuguese (Brazil)

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Barkworth, M. E. & A. M. Torres. 2001. Distribution and diagnostic characters of Nassella (Poaceae: Stipeae). Taxon 50:458.
  • Barkworth, M. E. 1990. Nassella (Gramineae, Stipeae): revised interpretation and nomenclatural changes. Taxon 39:597–614.
  • Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US) [= Stipa pulchra].
  • Reyna, J. V. & M. E. Barkworth. 1994. El genero Nassella (Poaceae: Stipeae) en Mexico. Acta Bot. Mex. 26:73.
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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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?402091 (09 February 2010)

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