Taxon: Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C. E. Hubb.

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Common names:

• eastern nit grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt [n.]; Libya; Morocco
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Peru

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• 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.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Marticorena, C. & M. Quezada. 1985. Catalogo de la flora vascular de Chile.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [mentions].
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. [mentions].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Gastridium phleoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Gastridium phleoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Gastridium phleoides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Gastridium ventricosum auct. Amer.
  
• (≡) Lachnagrostis phleoides Nees & Meyen (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C. E. Hubb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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