Poaceae

Stipa L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 78 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Temp. & Subtropical Old World to Tropical Mountains, Ecuador to S. South America.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Austria, Baleares, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile North, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand South, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South European Russia, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen

Introduced into:

Baltic States

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2025). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.699.1.1. epublication.
  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 34 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 78 (1753)
  • de Winter in Bothalia 8: 212 (1965)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0