Australopyrum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Hordeeae
Subtribus: Hordeinae
Genus: Australopyrum
Species: A. calcis – A. enysii – A. pectinatum – A. retrofractum – A. uncinatum – A. velutinum
Name

Australopyrum (Tzvelev) A.Love
This genus may be a synonym of Agropyron Gaertn., Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14(1): 539 (1770), to be resolved.
References

Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Australopyrum in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 31. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Australopyrum. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 31.
Tropicos.org 2013. Australopyrum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Oct. 31.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Australopyrum. Published online. Accessed: 31 Oct. 2013.

Australopyrum is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.[2][3][4]

The genus Australopyrum is closely related to Agropyron, and some authors consider it part of that genus.[5][6]

Species[7]

Australopyrum calcis Connor & Edgar - New Zealand South Island
Australopyrum pectinatum (Labill.) Á.Löve - Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania; naturalised in New Zealand
Australopyrum retrofractum (Vickery) Á.Löve - New South Wales, Tasmania; naturalised in New Zealand North Island
Australopyrum uncinatum Veldkamp - New Guinea
Australopyrum velutinum (Nees) B.K.Simon - New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

formerly included[7]

see Stenostachys

Australopyrum enysii - Stenostachys enysii

References

Tropicos, Australopyrum (Tzvelev) Á. Löve
Löve, Áskell 1984. Feddes Repertorium 95(7–8): 442
Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references". The Grass Genera of the World. Archived from the original on 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
"Atlas of Living Australia, Australopyrum (Tzvelev) A.Love". Archived from the original on 2015-04-03. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
Tzvelev, Nikolai Nikolaievich 1973. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshchikh Rastenii 10: 35
The Plant List search for Australopyrum
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families