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Taxon: Elymus violaceus (Hornem.) Feilberg

Genus:

Elymus

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Hordeinae

Nomen number:

454271

Place of publication:

Meddel. Grønland, Biosci. 15:12. 1984

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

08-Nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

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

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

(=) Agropyron latiglume (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Rydb.
(≡) Agropyron violaceum (Hornem.) Lange
(=) Agropyron violaceum var. latiglume Scribn. & J. G. Sm.
(≡) Agropyron violaceum var. violaceum (Hornem.) Lange
(=) Elymus alaskanus subsp. latiglumis (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Á. Löve
(=) Elymus trachycaulus subsp. latiglumis (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey, nom. inval.
(≡) Elymus trachycaulus subsp. violaceus (Hornem.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
(≡) Roegneria violacea (Hornem.) Melderis
Basionym: Triticum violaceum Hornem.
(≡) Triticum violaceum f. violaceum Hornem.

Common names:

Arctic wheatgrass (Source: F NAmer) - English
élyme latiglume (Source: F NAmer) - French

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territories, Yukon] Greenland, United States [Alaska]
EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec (n.), Ontario (n.)]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana (w.), Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Nevada]

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Govaerts, R. World checklist of selected plant families (on-line resource). Note: = Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners
Ni, Y. et al. 2011. Maternal origin, genome constitution and evolutionary relationships of polyploid Elymus species and Hordelymus europaeus. Biol. Pl. 55:68-74.
Sun, G. & X. Ma. 2009. Nucleotide diversity and minisatellite in chloroplast Asp(GUC)-Thr(GGU) region in Elymus trachycaulus complex, Elysmus alaskanus and Elymus caninus. Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 37:67-75.
Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 77-108. Note: this review mentioned the diversity of genome constitution in Triticeae, all types found in Elymus able to cross with wheat

Check other web resources for Elymus violaceus (Hornem.) Feilberg :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

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=454271. Accessed 18 May 2024.