Taxon: Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult.

Genus:

Agropyron

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Hordeinae

Nomen number:

1817

Place of publication:

Mant. 2:412. 1824

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

06-nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 20-nov-2007

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(≡) Agropyron cristatum subsp. desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Á. Löve
(≡) Agropyron sibiricum var. desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Boiss.
Basionym: Triticum desertorum Fisch. ex Link

Common names:

crested wheatgrass (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
desert crested wheatgrass (Source: F CalifJep) - English
desert wheatgrass (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
standard crested wheatgrass (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
chiendent désertique (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
chiendent du désert (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
agropiro dei deserti (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
žitnâk pustynnyj (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

Environmental: erosion control (fide Food Feed Crops US)
Environmental: revegetator (fide Food Feed Crops US)
Animal food: fodder (fide Food Feed Crops US)
Animal food: forage (fide Food Feed Crops US)
Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat (based on hybrid formation with Triticum aestivum by somatic crosses fide Pl Breed (NY) 112:160. 1994)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Kurgan, Omsk, Tuva]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
MONGOLIA: Mongolia
CHINA: China [Shanxi, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Xinjiang]

Europe

EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part, [European part (s.e.)] Ukraine (e. & Krym)

Cultivated

Europe

EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine

Northern America

Canada (c.), United States (w. & c.)

References:

Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
Hickman, J. C., ed. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. 1993 (F CalifJep)
International Seed Testing Association A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982 (Mult Glossary Crops)
Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000- (F Siberia)
Li, L. H. & Y. S. Dong 1994. Somaclonal variation in tissue culture of Triticum aestivum × Agropyron desertorum F1 hybrid Pl. Breed. (New York) 112:160-166.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Tzvelev, N. N. Zlaki SSSR. 1976 (Grass USSR)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=1817. Accessed 16 mayo 2024.