- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Paneion nemorale (L.) Lunell; Poa angustifolia var. nemoralis (L.) Huds.; Poa nemoralis var. linnaei Stapf; Poa serotina var. nemoralis (L.) Link; Agrestis alba (L.) Lunell; Agrostis alba L.; Agrostis aristata Sinclair ex Steud.; Agrostis conferta Willd. ex Steud.; Agrostis cremenica Besser ex Steud.; Agrostis disticha Schweigg. ex Steud.; Aira elodes Brign.; Aira helodes Steud.; Aira petraea Bellardi ex Steud.; Catabrosa helodes Roem. & Schult.; Decandolia alba (L.) T.Bastard; Eragrostis tenuis Steud.; Festuca asperrima Hornem. ex Steud.; Festuca depauperata Bertol.; Milium album (L.) Lag.; Paneion nemorale (L.) Lunell; Poa acmocalyx Keng f. & L.Liu; Poa adjarica (Sommier & Levier) A.P.Khokhr.; Poa alexeenkoi (Tzvelev) Czerep.; Poa asperula Steud.; Poa caespitosa Poir.; Poa carpatica subsp. supramontana Bernátová, Májovský, Kliment & Topercer; Poa cinerea Vill.; Poa debilis Thuill.; Poa dubia Suter; Poa eligulata Pavlov; Poa firma Wormsk. ex Roem. & Schult.; Poa firmula (Gaudin) Gray; Poa glaucescens Roth; Poa gracilescens Schrad.; Poa hypanica Prokudin; Poa juncea Suter; Poa juncoides Gaudin; Poa kumgansanii Ohwi; Poa lapponica Prokudin; Poa lapponica subsp. acmocalyx (Keng f. & L.Liu) Olonova & G.H.Zhu; Poa lapponica subsp. pilipes (Keng f. ex Shan Chen) Olonova & G.H.Zhu; Poa lapponica var. turiensis Tzvelev; Poa marginata Willd.; Poa muralis Honck.; Poa nemoralis subsp. alexeenkoi Tzvelev; Poa nemoralis f. glaucantha (Schleich. ex Gaudin) Ghisa & Beldie; Poa nemoralis subsp. hylaea Galanin; Poa nemoralis subsp. hypanica (Prokudin) Tzvelev; Poa nemoralis subsp. lapponica (Prokudin) Tzvelev; Poa nemoralis var. loiseaui Portal; Poa nemoralis var. parca N.R.Cui; Poa nemoralis var. polyclada Portal & Loiseau; Poa nemoralis var. popovii Tzvelev; Poa nemoralis subsp. subpolaris (Kuvaev) Tzvelev; Poa nemoralis var. zhitomirica Tzvelev; Poa parnellii Bab.; Poa pilipes Keng f. ex Shan Chen; Poa polymorpha Wibel; Poa pseudocaesia Schur; Poa pyramidalis Clairv.; Poa rariflora Desf.; Poa recta Willd. ex Steud.; Poa salebrosa Panz. ex Steud.; Poa scheuchzeri Suter; Poa scopulorum Butters & Abbe; Poa subpolaris Kuvaev; Poa tenuis Clairv.; Poa tenuis Elliott; Poa tormentuosa Butters & Abbe; Poa variegata Host ex Kunth; Vilfa alba (L.) P.Beauv.; Vilfa neglecta P.Beauv. ex Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Poa nemoralis L.
- Common name : Wood Meadow-grass
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : In shaded temperate forest floor and in the high Himalaya; 1300 - 4000 m. altitude
- Key identification features : Anthers 1.3-2mm long; lower glume 3-nerved; panicle-branches scaberulous, 2-5 at the lower nodes
- Flower, Fruit : May-August
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Native : Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, China, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Europe
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere, North-West Africa and Argentina, Chile, Greenland, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kerguelen, New Zealand, Uruguay
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 272
- Nautiyal D.C. and Gaur R.D., (2017). Poa L. species in Uttarakhand, India and keys for their identification. Taiwania 62(1): 75-92
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Poa nemoralis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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