Vulpia

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: Vulpia
Species: V. alopecuros – V. alpina – V. antucensis – V. australis – V. brevis – V. bromoides – V. ciliata – V. cynosuroides – V. delicatula – V. elliotea – V. fasciculata – V. fontquerana – V. geniculata – V. gracilis – V. gypsophila – V. ligustica – V. membranacea – V. microstachys – V. muralis – V. myuros – V. octoflora – V. pectinella – V. persica – V. sicula – V. unilateralis

Name

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

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Zerna Panz., Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 4: 296, 309 (1813 publ. 1814), nom. superfl.
Mygalurus Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 92 (1821), nom. superfl.
Chloamnia Raf., Neogenyton: 4 (1825)
Dasiola Raf., Neogenyton: 4 (1825)
Nardurus (Bluff, C.G.D.Nees & Schauer) Rchb., Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: 39 (1841)
Festucaria Link, Linnaea 17: 398 (1844), nom. illeg.
Ctenopsis De Not., Index Seminum (G) 1847: 325 (1847)
Distomischus Dulac, Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 91 (1867)
Prosphysis Dulac, Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 67 (1867), nom. superfl.
Loretia Duval-Jouve, Rev. Sc. Nat. (Montpellier), II, 2: 38 (1880)
Narduretia Villar, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 16: 100 (1925)

References

Gmelin, C.C. (1805) Flora Badensis Alsatica 1: 8.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Vulpia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 26. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Vulpia. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 26.
Tropicos.org 2013. Vulpia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 26.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Vulpia. Published online. Accessed: 26 Dec. 2013.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Vulpia.

Vernacular names
Afrikaans: Silwergras
čeština: Mrvka
English: Fescue
suomi: Häntänadat

Vulpia is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, native to many countries around the world and naturalized in many of the nations to which it is not native. It is most common in temperate regions.[2][3][4][5][6]

Vulpia is a part of a group of species known as fescues; Vulpia is sometimes considered a subset of the main fescue genus, Festuca. Many of these fescues are considered noxious weeds in many places.[7] Vulpia myuros is a notable weed.

The genus is named for Johann Samuel Vulpius (1760-1846), a German botanist.[8]

Species[1][9]

Vulpia alopecuros (Schousb.) Link - western Mediterranean, Canary Is
Vulpia alpina L.Liu - Tibet
Vulpia antucensis Trin. - Chile, Argentina
Vulpia australis (Nees) Blom - South America
Vulpia brevis Boiss. & Kotschy - eastern Mediterranean
Vulpia bromoides (L.) Gray - brome fescue - Europe, Africa, Arabia; naturalized in Australia, the Americas, various islands
Vulpia ciliata Dumort. - Europe, North Africa, central + southwestern Asia; introduced in Australia, New Zealand, Pennsylvania
Vulpia cynosuroides (Desf.) Parl. - Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
Vulpia delicatula (Lag.) Dumort. - Portugal, Spain
Vulpia elliotea (Raf.) Fernald - squirreltail fescue - southeastern USA (Texas to New Jersey)
Vulpia fasciculata (Forssk.) Samp. - western Europe, Mediterranean, Caucasus; introduced in Australia, South Africa
Vulpia fontquerana Melderis & Stace - Spain
Vulpia geniculata (L.) Link - Mediterranean, Sweden, Britain, Canary Islands, Madeira
Vulpia gracilis H.Scholz - Tunisia, Libya
Vulpia gypsophila (Hack.) Nyman - Spain, Sicily
Vulpia ligustica (All.) Link - Mediterranean
Vulpia litardiereana (Maire) A.Camus - Morocco
Vulpia membranacea (L.) Dumort. - Mediterranean
Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro - small fescue - western USA, British Columbia, Baja California (incl Guadalupe Island), Peru
Vulpia muralis (Kunth) Nees - Mediterranean, Azores, Canary Islands, Balkans, Hungary, Saudi Arabia; introduced in Australia, scattered locales in South America
Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C.Gmel. - rat-tail fescue - Africa, Eurasia; introduced in Australia, the Americas, various islands
Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. - widespread in North America; also Chile + Argentina
Vulpia pectinella (Delile) Boiss. - North Africa, Middle East from Morocco to Iraq
Vulpia persica (Boiss. & Buhse) Krecz. & Bobrov - Asia from Saudi Arabia to Kazakhstan
Vulpia sicula (J.Presl) Link - Mediterranean
Vulpia unilateralis (L.) Stace - from Britain to Morocco + Tajikistan

formerly included[1]

Numerous species once considered part of Vulpia but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Anthosachne Australopyrum Avellinia Festuca Micropyrum Vulpiella
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Gmelin, Carl (Karl) Christian. 1805. Flora Badensis, Alsatica Et Confinium Regionum Cis Et Transrhenana Plantas a Lacu Bodamico Usque Ad Confluentem Mosellae Et Rheni Sponte Nascentes exhibens secundum systema sexuale cum iconibus ad naturam dileneatis 1: 8
Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 242 鼠茅 shu mao Vulpia myuros (Linnaeus) C. C. Gmelin, Fl. Bad. 1: 8. 1805
Flora of Pakistan
Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Vulpia includes photos, drawings, and distribution maps for several species
Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
[1] US Department of Agriculture, Noxious Weeds
Jepson Manual Treatment
The Plant List search for Vulpia