Poaceae
Deschampsia

Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv.

First published in Ess. Agrostogr.: 91 (1812)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Subarctic & Temp. to Tropical Mountains. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Antipodean Is., Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Central European Russia, Chatham Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Colorado, Congo, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre

Introduced into:

Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil South, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Hawaii, Lesotho, Macquarie Is., South Australia, South Georgia

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Edgar, E & Connor, H.E. (2010). Flora of New Zealand, ed. 2, 5: 1-650. R.E.Owen, Government Printer, Wellington.
  • Exell, A.W. (1973). Angiosperms of the islands of the gulf of Guinea (Fernando Po, Príncipe, S.Tomé, and Annobon). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Botany 4: 325-411.
  • Fedorov, A.A. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Russia. The European part and bordering regions 1: 1-546. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Broekfield.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2007). Flora of North America North of Mexico 24: 1-908. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Hassler, M. & Muer, T. (2022). Flora Germanica: alle Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Deutschlands in Text und Bild 1: 1-864. Verlag Regionalkultur, Uberstadt-Weiher.
  • Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2020). Flora of Japan IVa: 1-430. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
  • Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
  • Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dal'nego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
  • Knapp, W.M. & Naczi, R.F.C. (2021). Vascular plants of Maryland, USA. A comprehensive account of the state's botanical diversity. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 113: 1-151.
  • Komiljon, T., Natalya, B., Avazbek, B., Dilnoza, A., Ziyoviddin, Y., Deng, T. & Sun, H. (2020). Flora of the Dzhizak Province, Uzbekistan: 1-523. China Forestry Publishing House.
  • Kozhevnikov, A.E., Kozhevnikov, Z.V., Kwak, M. & Lee, B.Y. (2019). Illustrated flora of the Primorsky Territory, Russian Far East: 1-1124. National institute of biological resources.
  • Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 2: 1-362. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Meyer, F.K. (2011). Beiträge zur Flora von Albanien. Haussknechtia, Beih. 15: 1-220.
  • Nikolin, E.G. (2020). Opredelitel' vysshikh rasteniy Yakutii: 1-895. Moskva : Tovarishchestvo Nauchnykh Izdaniy KMK Novosibirsk "Nauka".
  • Noltie, H.J. (2000). Flora of Bhutan 3(2): 457-883. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
  • Nowak, A. & Nobis, M. (eds.) (2020). Illustrated Flora of Tajikistan and adjacent areas 2: 367-766. PAN, Polish academy of sciences.
  • Snow, N. & Davidse, G. (2011). Notes on grasses (Poaceae) in Hawai'i: 3. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 110: 17-22.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wilson, A. (ed.) (2009). Flora of Australia 44A: 1-410. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae. Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Rui, C. (eds.) (2019). Flora Intramongolica, edition 3, 6: 1-619. Typis Intramongolicae popularis, Huhhot.
  • de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Clayton, W. D., Harman, K. T. & Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
  • Cope, T. & Gray, A. (2009). Grasses of the British Isles. B.S.B.I. Handbook No. 13. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London.
  • Cox, R. M. & Hutchinson, T.C. (1979). Metal co-tolerances in the grass Deschampsia cespitosa. Nature 279: 231-233.
  • Davy, A. J. & Taylor, K. (1974). Water characteristics of contrasting soils in the Chiltern Hills and their significance for Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) Beauv. J. Ecol, 62: 367-378.
  • Davy, A. J. (1980). Biological Flora of the British Isles No. 149: Deschampsia caespitosa (L.) Beauv. ( Aira cespitosa L., Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) Beauv.) J. Ecol, 68: 1075-1096.
  • Preston, C. D., Pearman, D. A. & Dines, T. A. (eds) (2002). New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora: an Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. (2008) Seed Information Database (SID). Version 7.1.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Ess. Agrost. 91: 160 (1812)
  • F.T.A. 10: 91.
  • incl. var. mannii C. E. Hubbard in Kew Bull 1935: 311

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Bor, N.L. (1970). Flora Iranica 70: 1-573. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.
  • Clayton, W.D. (1970). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 1: 1-176.
  • Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic. Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.
  • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1985). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 9: 1-724. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Edgar, E & Connor, H.E. (2010). Flora of New Zealand, ed. 2, 5: 1-650. R.E.Owen, Government Printer, Wellington.
  • Exell, A.W. (1973). Angiosperms of the islands of the gulf of Guinea (Fernando Po, Príncipe, S.Tomé, and Annobon). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Botany 4: 325-411.
  • Fedorov, A.A. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Russia. The European part and bordering regions 1: 1-546. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Broekfield.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2007). Flora of North America North of Mexico 24: 1-908. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Forzza, R.C. & al. (2013). Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
  • Frenot, Y., Chown, S.L., Whinam, J., Selkirk, P.M., Convey, P., Skotnicki, M. & Bergstrom,D.M. (2005). Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 80: 45-72.
  • George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2. Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Grubov, V.I. (2008). Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia (with an atlas) 2: 1-503. Academy of Sciences, Mongolian People's Republic, Ulaan Bator.
  • Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Hultén, E.O.G. (1960). Flora of the Aleutian Islands and westernmost Alaska Peninsula: with notes on the flora of Commander Islands, ed. 2: 1-376. Weinheim : J. Cramer ; New York : Hafner Pub. Co.
  • Kandwal, M.K. & Gupta, B.K. (2009). An update on grass flora of Uttarkhand. Indian Journal of Forestry 32: 657-668.
  • Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dal'nego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
  • Koyama, T. (1987). Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions: an identification manual: 1-570. Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Lee, W.T. (1996). Lineamenta Florae Koreae: 1-1688. Soul T'ukpyolsi: Ak'ademi Sojok.
  • Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 2: 1-362. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Marhold, K. (ed.) (2012). IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 13. Taxon 61: 889-902.
  • Noltie, H.J. (2000). Flora of Bhutan 3(2): 457-883. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
  • Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1957). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 1: 1-547. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
  • Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1956). Flora Kazakhstana 1: 1-354. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
  • Press, J.R. et al. (2000). Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal: i-x, 1-430. Natural History Museum, London.
  • Renvoize, S.A. (1998). Gramineas de Bolivia: 1-644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Roshevitz, R.J. & al. (eds.) (1950). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR 2: 1-315. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.
  • Sabirova, N.D. & Sabirov, R.N. (2011). New and rare vascular plant species of Northern Sakhalin. Byulleten' Glavnogo Botaniceskogo Sada 197: 80-86.
  • Snow, N. & Davidse, G. (2011). Notes on grasses (Poaceae) in Hawai'i: 3. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 110: 17-22.
  • Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  • Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wilson, A. (ed.) (2009). Flora of Australia 44A: 1-410. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae. Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • P. Beauv., Ess. Agrost.: 91, 160 (1812).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Hartman, C. [s.n.] Norway K003385508 No
Meinertzhagen, R.; Clay, T. [715] Iceland K003385486 No
Pohle, R. [s.n.] Russia K000808820 Unknown Type Material Yes
Feilden, H.W. (Col.) [s.n.] K001666188 Yes
Osborne, J. [553] South Georgia and the Islands K000650285 Yes
Lalin, C.I. [s.n.] Sweden K003385499 No
Trevor-Battye, A. [s.n.] Norway K003385534 No
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] Norway K003385502 No
[J. F. Foster] [s.n.] Norway K003385510 No
Sinker, C.A. [150] Norway K003385507 No
Lynge, B. [s.n.] Norway K003385537 No
L. L. Laestadius [Laestadt] [s.n.] K003385517 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K003385529 No
{Schlegel; Arnell} [s.n.] Norway K003385509 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Norway K003385522 No
Schlyter, C.O. [s.n.] Norway K003385501 No
Koegel [s.n.] Iceland K003385490 No
Kneucker, A.; Notó, A. [s.n.] Norway K003385482 No
Regel [s.n.] K003385253 Yes
Lagerheim, C.; Sjögren, G. [s.n.] K003385526 No
[Sir A. C. Heecdlyguest] [2] Iceland K003385480 No
Pohle, R. [s.n.] Russia K000808819 Unknown Type Material Yes
[A. M. Acock] [22A] Norway K003385539 No
Hormann [s.n.] K003385515 No
Mian, S.; Leitch, I.; Kirby, K. ; Leitch, A. [SM56] United Kingdom K001527014 Yes
Chile K000308340 Type Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003385248 Yes
Collett, R. [s.n.] Norway K003385506 No
Roikeland, A. [s.n.] Norway K003385520 No
Feilden, H.W. (Col.) [s.n.] Russia K001666189 Yes
Chile K000308350 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gibbs, L.S. [4520] Iceland K003385485 No
{Ahlberg; Axell} [s.n.] Norway K003385532 No
Peterson, P.M.; Salariato, D.L.; Soreng, R.J. [19187] Argentina K001925804 Yes
Huter, R. [s.n.] Austria K003385262 Yes
Peterson, P.; Annable, C.R. [12118] United States K001872644 Yes
Peterson, P.; Annable, C.R. [12131] United States K001872675 Yes
s.coll. [1] Iceland K003385481 No
Trevor-Battye, A. [s.n.] Norway K003385536 No
Alm, C.G. [1805] Sweden K003385494 No
Warodell, E. [s.n.] Sweden K003385496 No
Baenitz, C. [s.n.] Norway K003385500 No
Hartz, J.; Ostenfeldt, C. [s.n.] Iceland K003385484 No
Fellman, N.I. [s.n.] K003385493 No
{Lynge} [s.n.] K003385255 Yes
[Barrley] [s.n.] Iceland K003385489 No
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] Norway K003385503 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Norway K003385521 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K003385252 Yes
Zetterstedt, J.E.; Wickbom, J.A.O. [s.n.] Norway K003385531 No
[Buler] [s.n.] K003385504 No
Otto, E. [s.n.] K003385246 Yes
Trevor-Battye, A. [s.n.] Norway K003385535 No
Dobbs, C.G. [s.n.] Norway K003385540 No
[A Gilett] [s.n.] Norway K003385511 No
[A. M. Acock] [23] Norway K003385538 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K003385519 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Norway K003385523 No
{Anderson} [s.n] K003385518 No
Feilden, H.W. (Col.) [s.n.] K003385250 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] France K003385514 No
Lindly [s.n.] K003385527 No
[Wilistöm]; L. L. Laestadius [Laestadt] [s.n.] K003385516 No
s.coll. [237] United Kingdom K000808860 Unknown Type Material Yes
[C. Lagger] [s.n.] K003385491 No
Greene, S.W. [3177] Georgia K003387569 Yes
Feilden, H.W. (Col.) [s.n.] K003385251 Yes
Albert, L. [s.n.] Sweden K003385495 No
Babington, C.C. [157] Iceland K003385488 No
Kjellman, F.R.; Lundström, A.N. [s.n.] K003385247 Yes
Swartz [s.n.] K003385528 No
Hooker, J. [s.n.] United Kingdom K003385525 No
[C Lagger] [s.n.] K003385524 No
Zetterstedt, J.E.; Zetterstedt, P.L. [s.n.] K003385530 No
Hartz, J.; Ostenfeldt, C. [s.n.] Iceland K003385483 No
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] K003385505 No
Thomas [s.n.] Switzerland K003385513 No
Greene, S.W. [2084] South Georgia and the Islands K003387570 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K003385245 Yes
{Lynge} [s.n.] K003385254 Yes
Samuelsson, G. [s.n.] Sweden K003385497 No
Dobbs, C.G. [s.n.] Norway K003385541 No
{Lynge} [s.n.] Norway K003385512 No
Anderson, J.N. [290] K003385492 No
Feilden, H.W. (Col.) [s.n.] K003385249 Yes
[Huzss] [s.n.] Norway K003385533 No
Hill, A.W. [s.n.] Iceland K003385487 No
Backman, C.F. [s.n.] Sweden K003385498 No

Sources

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    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Kew Species Profiles
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