Mibora
{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Agrostis+Mibora sp Sturm14.jpg
|image_caption = Mibora minima
(figure #1 a-d at right)1795 illustration by Johann Georg Sturm - Figure 14 from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen
|taxon = Mibora
|authority = Adans.
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
{{specieslist
|Mibora minima|(L.)Desv. type species synonyms see {{Collapsible list |
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- Agrostis minima
- Chamagrostis desvauxii
- C. littorea
- C. minima
- C. minima var. elongata
- C. verna
- Knappia agrostidea
- K. verna
- K. vernalis
- M. desvauxii
- M. minima var. elongata
- M. verna
- M. verna var. elongata
- Poa minima
- Sturmia minima
- S. verna
}}}}
|Mibora maroccana|(Maire) Maire
}}
|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=424197 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
|synonyms =
- Chamagrostis Borkh.
- Knappia Sm.
- Rothia Borkh. 1792, illegitimate homonym not Schreb. 1791 nor Lam. 1792 nor Pers. 1807
- Sturmia Hoppe
}}
Mibora, or sandgrass,{{PLANTS|id=MIBOR|taxon=Mibora|accessdate=9 July 2015}} is a genus of European and North African plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3611463#page/1041/mode/1up Adanson, Michel. 1763. Familles des Plantes 2: 495] in French[http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00381.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora]
Description
Mibora is a genus of very small to small annual grasses with erect or sometimes quickly ascending stems (often called culms) between {{convert|2|and|13|cm|abbr=on}} long, growing in tufts. As in all grasses the leaves consist at its base of a sheath closely enveloping the culm, a free standing blade at its tip and a ligule at the inside/upside where sheath and blade meet. The sheaths are tender, shallowly grooved rounded at their back, {{convert|0.2|–|1|mm|abbr=on}} long. The ligule is membranaceus and lacks fine hairs (or cilia). The blade is flat, folded along the midline or enrolled and {{convert|1|–|6|cm|abbr=on}} long which are up to {{convert|0.5|to|0.7|mm|abbr=on}} wide and have a stump tip. The spikelets consist of one fertile floret, which has 3 anthers.{{cite book|author= Editorial Committee of the Flora of North America|title= Flora of North America: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part 1|publisher= Oxford University Press|year= 1993|isbn= 9780195310719|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=nGocHgeBwVMC&q=Mibora+minima&pg=PA757}}
Key to the species
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! scope="row" width="3%" | 1 | Inflorescence embraced at base by a subtending leaf. Leaf blades folded along the midline or enrolled. Glumes similar in texture to the fertile lemma. Lemma ovate. Morocco. |
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! scope="row" width="3%" | - | Inflorescence without a leaf at its base. Leaf blades flat or enrolled. Glumes more firm than the fertile lemma. Lemma obtuse. Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, middle and southern England, Wales, and very rare in the eastern Mediterranean.[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Mibora The Plant List search for Mibora]Cabi, E. & M. Doğan. 2012. Poaceae. 690–756. In A. Güner, S. Aslan, T. Ekim, M. Vural & M. T. Babaç (eds.) Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi. Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını, Istanbul[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=mibora+minima Altervista Flora Italiana, Cappellini minori, Early Sand Grass, Zwerggras, Mibora minima] Introduced in the eastern USA and Canada, but does not maintain itself. |
References
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Category:Bunchgrasses of Africa
Category:Bunchgrasses of Europe
Category:Taxa named by Michel Adanson
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