Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Festuca fluitans L.
• (≡) Panicularia fluitans (L.) Kuntze

Common names:

• floating manna grass  (Source: F Canada) - English
• floating sweet grass  (Source: F GB Ire) - English
• capim-maná  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• glicéria-flutuante  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• maná-flutuante  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• mannagräs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Human food: cereal (seeds fide L Edible Pl; F USSR; Invasive Pl Spec)
• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Turkey (n.)
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Saratov, Volgograd] Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain


Naturalized

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador]
• Mexico, United States

Southern America

• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=17676. Accessed 1 July 2024.