Molinia

Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa. They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.

Molinia
Molinia caerulea (right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Arundinoideae
Tribe: Molinieae
Subtribe: Moliniinae
Genus: Molinia
Schrank
Type species
Molinia varia
Synonyms
  • Monilia A.Gray
  • Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin
  • Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.

Species
formerly included

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

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