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Piptatheropsis
Piptatheropsis pungens[1]
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Piptatheropsis

Type species
Piptatheropsis canadensis

Piptatheropsis is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3]

Piptatheropsis is a newly recognized genus, named in 2011, comprising species formerly considered members of Milium, Oryzopsis, Piptatherum, Stipa, and similar genera.[2]

Species[4]
  1. Piptatheropsis canadensis (Poir.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng - Canada (BC to LAB), northeastern USA (ME NH NY MI WI MN WV)
  2. Piptatheropsis exigua (Thurb.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng - western North America (ABT BC CO ID MT OR WA WY CAL NV UT)
  3. Piptatheropsis micrantha (Trin. & Rupr.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng - western North America (ABT BC MAN SAS CO ID MT WY ND NE OK SD AZ CAL NV UT NM TX)
  4. Piptatheropsis pungens (Torr. ex Spreng.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng - Canada (BC to LAB plus NWT + YUK), USA (Northeast, Great Lakes, Black Hills of SD + WY, Rocky Mountains of CO + NM)
  5. Piptatheropsis shoshoneana (Curto & Douglass M.Hend.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng - Idaho, Nevada

References

  1. ^ illustration from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 175. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc, using the synonym Oryzopsis pungens
  2. ^ a b Romaschenko, K., P. M. Peterson, R. J. Soreng, O. Futorna & A. Susanna. 2011. Phylogenetics of Piptatherum s.l. (Poaceae: Stipeae): evidence for a new genus, Piptatheropsis, and resurrection of Patis. Taxon 60(6): 1703–1716
  3. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  4. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families