Stipa barbata is a species of perennial grass native to southern Europe, North Africa, and the Levant in the Mediterranean Basin, and temperate Asia.
Stipa barbata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Pooideae |
Genus: | Stipa |
Species: | S. barbata
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Binomial name | |
Stipa barbata Desf.
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The plant is a bunchgrass with:
- culms that are 30–60 cm long
- leaf blades are flexuous, filiform, conduplicate or involute.
- leaf blades are 15–30 cm long by 1–2 mm wide.
References
edit- GBIF entry
- Flora Atlantica sive Historia Plantarum, quae in Atlante... 1:97, t. 27. 1798.
External links
editWikispecies has information related to Stipa barbata.
- Media related to Stipa barbata at Wikimedia Commons
- GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora — (kew.org)
- USDA Plants Profile: Stipa barbata