Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel.

Vorontsova, Maria S., Nanjarisoa, Olinirina Prisca & Besnard, Guillaume, 2014, Three new grass records for Madagascar, Candollea 69 (1), pp. 85-87 : 87

Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. , Fl. Bad. 1: 8. 1805.

≡ Festuca myuros L. , Sp. Pl.: 74 1753.

Lectotypus (designated by STACE & JARVIS, 1985): COUNTRY UNKNOWN: Habitat in Anglia, Italia. Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-218 ( L).

Observations. – Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. , the rat’s tail fescue, is almost certainly a European native now naturalised worldwide and invasive particularly in Mediterranean ecosystems, especially in the U. S. A. (California and Oregon) and in Australia (HOWARD, 2006). The Paris herbarium (P) holds a single collection of V. myuros and numerous accessions of V. bromoides (L.) Gray from Réunion. No collections of Vulpia C. C. Gmel. have previously been recorded from Madagascar. The lack of collections for the last 50 years may indicate lack of spread although the low collection rates for Poaceae in general make this doubtful. The specimen was originally recorded as Aristida sp.

Specimen examined. – MADAGASCAR. Prov. Antananarivo: route d’Antsirabe , VII.1964, Morat 1119 ( P [ P02616909 ]!) .