Avenella flexuosa

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Poeae
Subtribus: Airinae
Genus: Avenella
Species: Avenella flexuosa
Subspecies: A. f. subsp. afromontana – A. f. subsp. corsica – A. f. subsp. flexuosa – A. f. subsp. iberica – A. f. subsp. ligulata – A. f. subsp. maderensis – A. f. subsp. mairei – A. f. subsp. stricta

Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drejer, Fl. Excurs. Hafn. xxiv, 32 (1838).

• Type locality: "Europe"
• Lectotype: LINN 85.11
  • Designated by Clayton in Milne-Redhead & Polhill (1970; Fl. Trop. East Afr., Gramineae 1:94)

• Basionym
  • Aira flexuosa L., Sp. Pl. 1:65 (1753).
• Homotypic
  • Avena montana var. adultior Weber in F.H.Wiggers, Prim. Fl. Holsat.: 9 (1780).
  • Arundo flexuosa (L.) Clairv., Man. Herbor. Suisse: 16 (1811).
  • Avena flexuosa (L.) Schrank, Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Bot. Ges. Regensburg 1(2): 7 (1818).
  • Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin., Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 1: 66 (1836).
  • Avenella flexuosa (L.) Parl., Fl. Ital. 1: 246 (1848), isonym.
  • Lerchenfeldia flexuosa (L.) Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 753 (1866).
  • Podionapus flexuosus (L.) Dulac, Fl. Hautes-Pyrénées: 83 (1867).
  • Salmasia flexuosa (L.) Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 4: 319 (1901).

To be allocated to subspecies:

• Aira versicolor Roem. & Schult., 1817 (Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2:679)
  • Type locality: Portu Egmont, Falkland Islands
  • Holotype: L. Neé s.n. (MA; isotype BAA)
• Aira vestita Steud., 1854 (Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1:424)
  • Type locality: Sandy Point, Chile
  • Holotype: W. Lechler 1193 (P; isotypes BAA, S, GOET; fragment US)
• Deschampsia martinii Phil., 1896 (Anales Univ. Chile 94:24)
  • Type locality: Argentina. “Insulis Maclovianis,”
  • Holotype: Martin s.n. (SGO; isotype BAA).
• Deschampsia tenella Phil., 1896 (Anales Univ. Chile 94:25), nom. illeg., non Deschampsia tenella Petrie, 1891
  • Type locality: "Valle fluminis Palena," Chile
  • Holotype: F. Delfin s.n. (SGO; fragment BAA)
• Deschampsia fuegina Phil., Anales Univ. Chile 94:23 (1896)
  • Type locality: "Hab. Fuegia Orientalis", Tierra del Fuego, Chile
  • Holotype: s.c. s.n. (SGO PHIL-208; isotype BAA; fragment US-556482)
• Deschampsia philippii Macloskie, 1906 (Rep. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patagon., Bot. 8:961; "philippi"), nom. nov. pro Deschampsia tenella Phil.
• Deschampsia macloviana Gand., 1913 (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60:28)
  • Type locality: "ad East F. Port Harriet", Falkland Islands
  • Holotype: C. Skottsberg 124 (S; fragment BAA).
• Deschampsia vestita (Steud.) Hauman, 1929 (Physis (Buenos Aires) 9:337)

• Drejer, S.T.N. 1838. Flora Excursoria Hafniensis. lxvi + 339 pp. Sumtibus Librairiæ Schubothianæ, Kjøbenhavn. Google Books. Reference page. 
• Parlatore, F. 1848–1850. Flora italiana, ossia, Descrizione delle piante che crescono spontanee o vegetano come tali in Italia e nelle isole ad essa aggiacenti; disposta secondo il metodo naturale. Vol. 1 [Graminaceae]. 568 pp. Le Monnier, Firenze. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 

• Chiapella, J. & Zuloaga, F.O. 2010. A Revision of Deschampsia, Avenella, and Vahlodea (Poaceae, Poeae, Airinae) in South America. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(2): 141-162. DOI: 10.3417/2008115 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Veldkamp, J.F. 2015. An attempt to unravel the synonymy of Avenella flexuosa (L.) Drejer (Gramineae). Plant Diversity and Evolution 131/4: 239–262. DOI: 10.1127/pde/2015/0131-0084 Abstract PDF Reference page. 

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Avenella flexuosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 October 15. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Avenella flexuosa. Published online. Accessed: 15 October 2020.
• Tropicos.org 2024. Avenella flexuosa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 24 October 2024.
• Hassler, M. 2024. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Avenella flexuosa. Accessed: 24 October 2024.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2024. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Avenella flexuosa. Accessed: 2024 October 24.

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