Chionochloa · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Chionochloa
Sign in to saveChionochloa is a genus of tussock grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in New Zealand with one known species in New Guinea and another on Lord Howe Island (part of Australia). Some of the species are referred to as snowgrass or snow tussock.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Chionochloa is een geslacht uit de grassenfamilie (Poaceae). De soorten van dit geslacht komen voor in delen van Australazië en Antarctica.
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- BPBM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- New Zealand, New Guinea
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
Chionochloa is a genus of tussock grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in New Zealand with one known species in New Guinea and another on Lord Howe Island (part of Australia). Some of the species are referred to as snowgrass or snow tussock.
Most of the species in the genus grow in clumps, some up to tall. Red tussock dominates the tall tussock grasslands on the volcanic mountains of the North Island of New Zealand and can also be found in areas on the northern half of the South Island. Snow tussock, of which there are several species, can be found above the tree line together with other species. Species formerly included see Rytidosperma Chionochloa pallida – Rytidosperma pallidum
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chionochloa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (3)
Available in 14 languages
- Español
- Français
- Português
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Finnish
- Malay
- Nederlands
- Svenska
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Waray
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0