Stipa barbata

Species of grass

Stipa barbata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Stipa
Species:
S. barbata
Binomial name
Stipa barbata
Desf.

Stipa barbata is a species of perennial grass native to southern Europe, North Africa, and the Levant in the Mediterranean Basin, and temperate Asia.

The plant is a bunchgrass with:

  • culms that are 30–60 cm long
  • leaf blades are flexuous, filiform, conduplicate or involute.
  • leaf blades are 15–30 cm long by 1–2 mm wide.

References

  • GBIF entry
  • Flora Atlantica sive Historia Plantarum, quae in Atlante... 1:97, t. 27. 1798.

External links

Wikispecies has information related to Stipa barbata.
  • Media related to Stipa barbata at Wikimedia Commons
  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora — (kew.org)
  • USDA Plants Profile: Stipa barbata
Taxon identifiers
Stipa barbata


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