Taxon: Bromus hordeaceus L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus (no accessions)
• Bromus hordeaceus subsp. ferronii (no accessions)
• Bromus hordeaceus subsp. hordeaceus (no accessions)
• Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei (no accessions)

Common names:

• barley brome   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• common soft brome   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Bromus hordeaceus subsp. hordeaceus]
  
• least soft brome   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Bromus hordeaceus subsp. ferronii]
  
• lop grass   (Source: Bromus NAmer 78.1995) – English
  
• sand soft brome   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei]
  
• soft brome   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• soft chess   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English   [Bromus hordeaceus subsp. hordeaceus]
  
• soft chess   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mao que mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• brome mou   (Source: L Noms French ed6 [as B. mollis]) – French
  
• bromo molle   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• luddlosta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [w.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada [s.w.]
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• also cultivated

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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. [= B. mollis].
• 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.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Matthei, O. 1986. El género Bromus (Poaceae) in Chile. Gayana, Bot. 43:65.
• Pavlick, L. 1995. Bromus L. of North America. 78.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:167.
• 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.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bromus hordeaceus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bromus hordeaceus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bromus hordeaceus.

Synonyms:

• Bromus ferronii Mabille [≡ Bromus hordeaceus subsp. ferronii]
  
• Bromus hordeaceus subsp. molliformis (J. Lloyd ex Billot) Maire & Weiller [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  
• Bromus intermedius subsp. divaricatus Bonnier & Layens [≡ Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  
• Bromus lloydianus (Godr. & Gren.) Nyman [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  
• Bromus molliformis J. Lloyd ex Billot [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  
• Bromus mollis L. [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. hordeaceus]
  (previously associated with 31 accessions)
• Bromus mollis var. lloydianus (Godr. & Gren.) Syme [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  
• Bromus mollis var. thominei (Hardouin) Breb. [≡ Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei]
  
• Bromus thominei Hardouin [≡ Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei]
  
• Serrafalcus lloydianus Godr. & Gren. [= Bromus hordeaceus subsp. divaricatus]
  

Check other web resources for Bromus hordeaceus L.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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