Taxon: Apera interrupta (L.) P. Beauv.

Common names:

• dense silky-bent   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• interrupted wind grass   (Source: Weed Technol 6:445.) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Weed CRCAustralia)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; Sweden [s.e.]
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.e.]; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. [mentions].
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• 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.
• McNeill, J. 1981. Apera, silky-bent or windgrass, an important weed genus recently discovered in Ontario, Canada. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 61:479–485.
• Northam, F. E. & R. H. Callihan. 1992. The windgrasses (Apera Adans., Poaceae) in North America. Weed Technol. 6:445–450.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:115.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Apera interrupta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Apera interrupta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Apera interrupta.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agrostis interrupta L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other web resources for Apera interrupta (L.) P. Beauv.:

• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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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