Echinaria capitata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Poeae
Subtribus: Sesleriinae
Genus: Echinaria
Species: Echinaria capitata

Echinaria capitata (L.) Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 385 (1799).

Basionym
- Cenchrus capitatus L., Sp. Pl.: 1049 (1753).
Homotypic
- Panicastrella capitata (L.) Moench, Methodus: 206 (1794).
Heterotypic
- Echinaria pumila Willk., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 6: 415 (1848).
- Echinaria capitata var. pumila (Willk.) Willk. in M.Willkomm & J.M.C.Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 1: 42 (1861)
- Echinaria spicata Debeaux, Rev. Bot. Bull. Mens. 8: 266 (1890).
- Reimbolea spicata (L.) Debeaux, Rev. Bot. Bull. Mens. 8: 266 (1890) pro syn.
- Echinaria capitata var. todaroana Ces. in V.de Cesati, G.Passerini & E.G.Gibelli, Comp. Fl. Italiana 1: 41 (1868)
- Echinaria capitata subsp. todaroana (Ces., Pass. & Gibelli) Arcang. in Comp. Fl. Ital.: 760 (1882)
- Echinaria todaroana (Ces.) Cif. & Giacom., Nomenclator Fl. Ital. 1: 46 (1950).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Europe
- Regional: Middle Europe
  - Hungary.
- Regional: Southwestern Europe
  - Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain.
- Regional: Southeastern Europe
  - Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia.
- Regional: Eastern Europe
  - Krym.
Continental: Africa
- Regional: Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia.
Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: Middle Asia
  - Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan.
- Regional: Caucasus
  - North Caucasus, Transcaucasus.
- Regional: Western Asia
  - Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey.

Desfontaines, R.L. 1798–1799. Flora Atlantica: sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro tunetano et algeriensi crescunt. Tomus secundus. 458 pp., pl. 121–261, Paris, Panckoucke. BHL Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Tomus II. Pp. 561–1200, [1–30, index], [1, err.]. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page.

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Hassler, M. 2022. Echinaria capitata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Feb 7. Reference page.
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