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Vulpia C.C. Gmel.
Taxonomic Serial No.: 42260

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Plantae
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Chloammia Raf.
		Dasiola Raf.
		Distomomischus Dulac
		Festucaria Link
		Loretia Duval-Jouve
		Mygalurus Link
		Nardurus (Bluff, Nees & Schauer) Rchb.
		Prosphysis Dulac
	Common Name(s):	fescue

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	accepted

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	partial
	Latest Record Review:	2010

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Plantae – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, plants
	Subkingdom	Viridiplantae – green plants
	Infrakingdom	Streptophyta – land plants
	Superdivision	Embryophyta
	Division	Tracheophyta – vascular plants, tracheophytes
	Subdivision	Spermatophytina – spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames
	Class	Magnoliopsida
	Superorder	Lilianae – monocots, monocotyledons, monocotylédones
	Order	Poales
	Family	Poaceae – grasses, graminées
	Genus	Vulpia C.C. Gmel. – fescue
		Direct Children:
	Species	Vulpia antucensis Trin.
	Species	Vulpia australis (Nees ex Steud.) C.H. Blom
	Species	Vulpia bromoides (L.) Gray – brome fescue, desert fescue, brome six-weeks grass
	Species	Vulpia ciliata Dumort. – fringed fescue
	Species	Vulpia elliotea (Raf.) Fernald
	Species	Vulpia fasciculata (Forssk.) Samp.
	Species	Vulpia geniculata (L.) Link
	Species	Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro – small fescue, twoflower fescue, little fescue
	Species	Vulpia muralis (Kunth) Nees
	Species	Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C. Gmel. – rat-tail fescue, rat-tailed fescue, rattail fescue, foxtail fescue
	Species	Vulpia octoflora (Walter) Rydb. – pullout grass, sixweeks grass, sixweeks fescue, eight-flower six-weeks grass

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	Source:	Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) - 11/2009, database (version 24/11/2009)
	Acquired:	2009
	Notes:	Maintained by R. J. Soreng et al., at http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG and formerly at http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/nwgc.html
	Reference for:	Vulpia

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
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	Source:	Poaceae update, database (version Sept. 2010)
	Acquired:	2010
	Notes:	Poaceae update for ITIS, in cooperation with NatureServe, and based on the Catalogue of New World Grasses database and other sources
	Reference for:	Vulpia

	Source:	The PLANTS Database, database (version 4.0.4)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:	National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov
	Reference for:	Vulpia

	Source:	The PLANTS Database, database (version 5.1.1)
	Acquired:	2000
	Notes:	National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov
	Reference for:	Vulpia

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