Taxon: Thinopyrum junceum (L.) Á. Löve

Genus:

Thinopyrum

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Triticinae

Nomen number:

314146

Place of publication:

Taxon 29:351. 1980

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

21-dic-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 07-mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(≡) Agropyron junceum (L.) P. Beauv.
(=) Agropyron junceum subsp. mediterraneum Simonet
(=) Elymus farctus (Viv.) Runemark ex Melderis
(≡) Elytrigia juncea (L.) Nevski
(≡) Elytrigia juncea subsp. juncea (L.) Nevski
(=) Elytrigia juncea subsp. mediterranea (Simonet) Hyl.
Basionym: Triticum junceum L.

Common names:

Russian wheatgrass (Source: F NAmer) - English
sand couch (Source: F GB Ire) - English
sea wheatgrass (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
chiendent des sables (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Bisenquecke (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Strandquecke (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Strandweizen (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
grama de las playas (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Gene sources: salt tolerance for wheat (fide New Crops Food Ind 242-243. 1989)
Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat (based on hybrid lines with Triticum aestivum fode Genome 53:1083. 2010)
Weed: (fide Invasive Pl Spec, as Elytrigia juncea)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Egypt (n.), Libya (n.w.), Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria (w.), Turkey (w.)
CAUCASUS: Georgia

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland
EASTERN EUROPE: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Slovenia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)

Naturalized

Northern America

EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Nova Scotia]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (s.)]

References:

FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Sell, P. & G. Murrell Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. 1996- (F GB Ire)
Wang, R. R.-C. et al. 2010. Analyses of Thinopyrum bessarabicum, T. elongatum, and T. junceum chromosomes using EST-SSR markers (Genome) 53:1083-1089.
Wickens, G. E. et al., eds. New crops for food and industry. 1989 (New Crops Food Ind) 242-243.

Check other web resources for Thinopyrum junceum (L.) Á. Löve :

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:
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
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=314146. Accessed 15 mayo 2024.