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Rostraria
Rostraria cristata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Supertribe:	Poodae
Tribe:	Poeae
Subtribe:	Aveninae
Genus:	Rostraria Trin. 1820
Type species
Rostraria pubescens (syn of R. cristata) Trin.
Synonyms
Aegialina Schult. Lophochloa Reichb. Aegialitis Trin. 1820, illegitimate homonym not R.Br. 1810 (Plumbaginaceae) Aegialina Schult. Poarion Rchb. Lophochloa Rchb. Wilhelmsia K.Koch 1848, illegitimate homonym not Rchb. 1828 (Caryophyllaceae) Ktenosachne Steud. Parodiochloa A.M.Molina 1986, illegitimate homonym not C.E. Hubb. 1981 (Poaceae) Raimundochloa A.M.Molina Trisetum unranked Rostraria (Trin.) Trin.

Rostraria is a genus of plants in the grass family, native primarily to Eurasia and North Africa with one species native to South America. Hairgrass is a common name.

These grasses are sometimes included in genus Koeleria.

Species

• Rostraria azorica S.Hend. - Santa Maria in Azores
• Rostraria balansae (Coss. & Durieu) Holub - Algeria incl. Habibas Islands
• Rostraria berythea (Boiss. & Blanche) Holub - Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Jordan, Israel
• Rostraria clarkeana (Domin) Holub - Jammu & Kashmir
• Rostraria cristata (Linn.) Tzvelev - Mediterranean hairgrass - Mediterranean, Sahara, and southwest Asia from Portugal + Cape Verde to northern India
• Rostraria hispida (Savi) Dogan - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Turkey
• Rostraria litorea (All.) Holub - Mediterranean from Morocco + Corsica to Greece
• Rostraria obtusiflora (Boiss.) Holub - from Crete to Tajikistan
• Rostraria pumila (Desf.) Tzvelev from Canary Islands to Pakistan
• Rostraria rohlfsii (Asch.) Holub - Sahara (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Egypt)
• Rostraria salzmannii (Boiss.) Holub - Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
• Rostraria trachyantha (Phil.) Soreng - Peru, Chile

formerly included

see Avellinia Trisetaria

• Rostraria festucoides - Avellinia festucoides
• Rostraria laevis - Trisetaria panicea
• Rostraria neglecta - Trisetaria panicea
• Rostraria parviflora - Trisetaria parviflora

References

1. Tropicos, Rostraria Trin.
2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1830. Mémoires de l'Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles 1(1): 65
4. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae 149, §161
5. Trinius, Carl Bernhard von. 1820. Fundamenta Agrostographiae plate XVII (17), figure VIII (8) line drawing of Rostraria cristata
6. NRCS. "Rostraria". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 23 October 2015.
7. Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Rostraria
8. The Plant List search for Rostraria
9. "Rostraria". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-06-15.

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