Psilurus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Festuceae
Subtribus: Loliinae
Genus: Psilurus
Species: P. incurvus
Name

Psilurus Trin., Fund. Agrost.: 93 (1820)
monotypic taxon

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Asprella Host, Icon. Descr. Gram. Austriac. 4: 17 (1809), nom. illeg.

References

Psilurus is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Species

The only known species is Psilurus incurvus, native to the Mediterranean and southwest Asia from Portugal and Morocco to Pakistan and Uzbekistan. It is also naturalised in parts of Australia.[1][4][5][6]
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae page 93
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
The Plant List search for Psilurus
Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Psilurus, Setolina ricurva
Atlas of Living Australia, Psilurus Trin.

Trinius, C.B. von (1820) Fundamenta Agrostographiae 93.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2014. Psilurus in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2014 Jan. 3. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2014. GrassWorld, Psilurus. Published online. Accessed: 2014 Jan. 3.
Tropicos.org 2014. Psilurus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 3 Jan. 2014.
International Plant Names Index. 2014. Psilurus. Published online. Accessed: 3 Jan. 2014.