Group: Monocot Rank: species Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19     

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 84. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Annotation: as "caput medus"

Type-Protologue

Locality: In Lusitaniae, Hispaniae maritimis

Distribution: Portugal, Spain

Type Specimens

• LT: ; ; (LINN-100.6) LT designated [as 106.6] by Humphries in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 76: 342 (1978)

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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  Elymus L.

Combinations for this basionym:

Cuviera caput-medusae (L.) Simonk. Természettudományi Közlöny 27: 274. 1895. (Természettud. Közl.)

Hordelymus caput-medusae (L.) Pignatti Giornale Botanico Italiano 111(1-2): 58. 1977. (Giorn. Bot. Ital.)

Hordeum caput-medusae (L.) Coss. & Durieu Exploration Scientifique de l'Algérie 2: 198. 1855. (Expl. Sci. Algérie)

Leptothrix caput-medusae (L.) Dumort. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Belgique 7: 66. 1868. (Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique)

Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski Trudy Sredne-Aziatskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriya 8b, Botanika 17: 38. 1934. (Trudy Sredne-Aziatsk. Gosud. Univ., Ser. 8b, Bot.)

Taeniatherum crinitum var. caput-medusae (L.) Wipff Sida 13(1): 120. 1988. (Sida)

Common Names:

• Medusahead rye (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. (none). Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051.

Keywords: AGF, IGS, trit, FNA