Agrostis capillaris

Sylvester, Steven P., Soreng, Robert J., Sylvester, Mitsy D. P. V., Mapaura, Anthony & Ralph Clark, Vincent, 2021, New records of alien and potentially invasive grass (Poaceae) species for southern Africa, Bothalia (a 1) 51 (2), pp. 1-9 : 2

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https://doi.org/ 10.38201/btha.abc.v51.i2.1

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scientific name

Agrostis capillaris
status

 

Agrostis capillaris View in CoL L., Sp. Pl. 1: 62 (1753). Agrostis polymorpha var. capillaris (L.) Huds., Fl. Angl. 1: 31 (1778). Trichodium capillaris (L.) Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 41 (1821). Type: [Habitat in Europae pratis], Herb. A. van Royen s.n. (lectotype, designated by Widén 1971: 65: L0052645 left-hand specimen [image!]; isolectotype: L [not seen]) ( Figures 1 View Figure1 , 2 View Figure 2 ).

= Agrostis tenuis Sibth., Fl. Oxon. 36 (1794). Agrostis capillaris Huds., Fl. Angl. : 27 (1762), hom. illeg., non L., 1753. Type: ENGLAND (not located).

Many other heterotypic synonyms ( POWO 2020).

Distribution: Of Eurasian origin; introduced into many other temperate areas of the World ( POWO 2020, and references therein). This is the first report of the species for sub-Saharan Africa and the FSA region; it may also be the first verified specimen from the African continent, as it is noted with ‘?’ for Morocco and Tunisia by Dobignard and Chatelain (2010: 213) ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Poaceae

Genus

Agrostis

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