Genus of grasses
Brachypodium genus of plants in thegrass family , widespread across much ofAfrica ,Eurasia , andLatin America .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] Brachypodieae .[ 11]
Flimsy upright stems formtussocks . Flowers appear in compact spike-like racemes with 5-25 flowers on each short-stalked spikelet in summer. Leaves are flat or curved.[ 12] [ 13]
According to a study published in 2010, there is evidence ofBrachypodium and cattail (Typha [ 14] Brachypodium , based on a comparison to two modern specimens: "Among these, the grains, which are slightly angular, with hardly visible centric, point-shaped hila and adequate dimensions (in the sample measuring 9–14 μm), appeared very similar to those ofBrachypodium or related genera."[ 15]
Species[ 4] [ 16] Brachypodium × ambrosii Spain Brachypodium × apollinaris Spain Brachypodium arbusculum Canary Islands Brachypodium bolusii Lesotho ,South Africa Brachypodium × cugnacii Denmark ,Ireland ,France ,Czech Republic Brachypodium × diazii Spain Brachypodium distachyon Mediterranean ,Sahara ,Sahel , southwestAsia fromPortugal +Cape Verde toSudan +Ukraine +Tibet Brachypodium firmifolium Cyprus Brachypodium flexum Africa fromSierra Leone toKwaZulu-Natal +Madagascar Brachypodium humbertianum Madagascar Brachypodium kawakamii Taiwan Brachypodium kotschyi Turkey Brachypodium madagascariense Madagascar Brachypodium mexicanum Mexico ,Central America ,Venezuela ,Colombia ,Ecuador ,Peru ,Bolivia Brachypodium perrieri Madagascar Brachypodium phoenicoides Mediterranean fromPortugal +Morocco toGreece Brachypodium pinnatum Africa +Eurasia fromIreland +Morocco toChina +Yakutia Brachypodium pringlei Mexico (Nuevo León ,Tamaulipas ,Coahuila )Brachypodium retusum Mediterranean + nearby areas fromPortugal +Morocco toEthiopia +Caucasus Brachypodium sylvaticum Africa +Eurasia fromIreland +Morocco toKorea +New Guinea formerly included[ 4] numerous species once considered members ofBrachypodium but now considered better suited to other genera:Agropyron Anthosachne Arundinella Brachyelytrum Brachysteleum Catapodium Cutandia Distichlis Elymus Festuca Festucopsis Lolium Micropyrum Poa Ptychomitrium Rostraria Triticum Vulpia
^ lectotype designated by Niles & Chase, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24: 196 (1925) ^ Tropicos,Brachypodium P. Beauv. ^ painting by the Swedish botanist C. A. M. Lindman (1856–1928), taken from his book(s) Bilder ur Nordens Flora (first edition published 1901–1905, supplemented edition 1917–1926?). ^a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 100-101 in Latin^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie plante XIX (19) , figure III (3 a-f) line drawings ofBrachypodium pinnatum ^ Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 368短柄草族 duan bing cao zu Poaceae Tribe Brachypodieae ^ Flora of Pakistan,Brachypodium P. Beauv. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genereBrachypodium ^ Sanbi Red List of South African Plants ^ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romaschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Teisher, Jordan K.; Clark, Lynn G.; Barberá, Patricia; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Zuloaga, Fernando O. (2017)."A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) II: An update and a comparison of two 2015 classifications" .Journal of Systematics and Evolution .55 (4):259– 290.doi :10.1111/jse.12262 hdl :10261/240149 ISSN 1674-4918 . ^ Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008)."The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references" .The Grass Genera of the World . Retrieved2009-08-19 . ^ Lord, Tony (2003) Flora : The Gardener's Bible : More than 20,000 garden plants from around the world. London: Cassell.ISBN 0-304-36435-5 ^ Callaway, Ewen (October 18, 2010)."Stone Age flour found across Europe" .naturenews . RetrievedOctober 12, 2011 . ^ Revedin, Anna; et al. (November 2, 2010)."Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing" .Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America .107 (44):18815– 18819.Bibcode :2010PNAS..10718815R .doi :10.1073/pnas.1006993107 PMC 2973873 PMID 20956317 . ^ The Plant List search forBrachypodium
Brachypodium Brachypodieae
