Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name with Basionym Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19

Authors:

Chapman, Alvan (Alvin) Wentworth

Published In: Flora of the southern United States 560. 1860. (Fl. South. U.S.)
Type Specimens

• T: ; ;

Basionym:

Aira purpurea Walter 

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  !Triplasis P. Beauv.

Other names with  Aira purpurea Walter  as basionym:

!Festuca purpurea (Walter) F. Muell.

Sieglingia purpurea (Walter) Kuntze

Tricuspis purpurea (Walter) A. Gray

Triodia purpurea (Walter) Smyth

Uralepis purpurea (Walter) Nutt.

Projects: Costa Rica , Mesoamericana , Missouri , New World Grasses , Nicaragua , VPA

Common Names:

• Purple sandgrass (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Keywords: AGF, FM, FNA, IGS, FWT