molinia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Illustration Molinia caerulea0.jpg

|image_caption = Molinia caerulea (right)1885 illustration by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Molinia

|authority = Schrank

|type_species_authority = Schranklectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 772: 50 (1920)

|type_species = Molinia varia

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=424814 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Monilia A.Gray
• Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
• Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

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Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334 They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.{{cite book|title=RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants|year=2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1405332965|pages=1136}}[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120930 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Molinia Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia]

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Molinia The Plant List search for Molinia]

• Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada
• Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril

; formerly included

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

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• Molinia aquatica - Catabrosa aquatica
• Molinia distans - Puccinellia distans
• Molinia distans var. reptans - Puccinellia maritima
• Molinia fauriei - Diarrhena fauriei
• Molinia fluitans - Glyceria fluitans
• Molinia maritima - Puccinellia maritima
• Molinia maxima - Glyceria maxima
• Molinia olgae - Festuca olgae
• Molinia pendulina - Arctophila fulva
• Molinia plicata - Glyceria fluitans
• Molinia remota - Poa remota
• Molinia retusa - Disakisperma dubium
• Molinia serotina - Cleistogenes serotina
• Molinia spiculosa - Glyceria spiculosa
• Molinia squarrosa - Cleistogenes squarrosa

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