USDA ARS United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
  GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Jump to common names  Jump to economic impacts  Jump to distribution  Jump to references  Jump to synonyms  Jump to links to other online resources  Jump to images

***Please tell us why you value GRIN Taxonomy***

Taxon: Bromus racemosus L.

Genus: Bromus subgenus: Bromus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Bromeae.
Nomen number: 7855
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:114. 1762
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Nov-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 13 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

More:

Economic importance:

  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Grass US)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan [e.]; Turkey [n.w. & n.e.]
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.]; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Sweden [s.]; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.w.]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Acedo, C. & F. Llamas. 1999. The genus Bromus L. (Poaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula. Phanerog. Monogr. 22:69–78.
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Matthei, O. 1986. El género Bromus (Poaceae) in Chile. Gayana, Bot. 43:67.
  • Pavlick, L. 1995. Bromus L. of North America. (Bromus NAmer) 86.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Smith, P. M. & F. Sales. 1993. Bromus L. sect. Bromus: taxonomy and relationships of some species with small spikelets. Edinburgh J. Bot. 50:149–171.
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Bromus racemosus L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • 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:

  • Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
More:
  • 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy
| USDA | ARS | GRIN | NPGS | New Search |
Cite as:
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?7855 (09 February 2010)

Please send us your comments

Close Window

Ctrl P to print