Phippsia ( lat. Phíppsia ) - a genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the family Cereals, or Bluegrass ( Poaceae ).
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The genus is named after the British botanist and polar explorer Konstantin John Phipps
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Botanical Description
Perennial herbaceous, dense plants, bare and smooth, 2–25 cm tall. The stems are ascending. The vagina is closed by more than ¾ length. The tongues are membranous, 0.5-3 mm long. The leaves are linear, usually flat, 0.8-3 mm wide.
Spikelets are single-flowered, small, (1) 1.2-1.5 (2) mm long, collected in compressed or spreading panicles with thin branches. The flower is bisexual. Stamens 1-2 (3), anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long. Grains free, flat, 1.3-1.7 mm long; hem is narrow, oval.
Taxonomy
The genus includes 3 species :
- Phippsia algida ( Sol. ) R.Br. (1823) - Phippsia a cold-loving typus
- Phippsia concinna ( Th.Fr. ) Lindeb. (1898) - Phippsia Slender
- Phippsia wilczekii Hack. (1909)
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
Literature
- Nevsky S.A. Genus 174. Phippsia - Phippsia R. Br. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / chap. ed. V.L. Komarov . - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1934. - T. 2 / ed. volumes R. Yu. Rozhevits , B.K. Shishkin . - S. 446-448. - 778, XXXIII p. - 5175 copies.
- Tsvelev N.N. Genus 97. Phippsia - Phippsia (Trin.) R. Br. // Grains of the USSR / holes. ed. An. A. Fedorov . - L .: Nauka , 1976 .-- S. 492-493. - 788 p. - 2900 copies.
Links
- Phippsia : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved August 17, 2014)