Oatmeal

Oatmeal
	Early Haferschmiele ( Aira praecox )
Systematics
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order :	Sweet grass (Poales)
Family :	Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Subfamily :	Pooideae
Genre :	Oatmeal
Scientific name
	Aira
	L.

Oaterschmielen ( Aira ) are a genus of plants within the sweet grass family (Poaceae). The eight or so species are common in Eurasia , North Africa and Macaronesia .

description

Illustration of the clove wreath ( Aira caryophyllea ) and the early wreath ( Aira praecox )

Clove oatweed ( Aira caryophyllea )

Aira cupaniana

Vegetative characteristics

In Aira TYPES is comparatively small stature, annual herbaceous plants that achieve the most growth heights between 5 and 20 cm.

Generative characteristics

The spikelets are arranged in paniculate inflorescences . Usually two flowers are arranged in small (1.5 to 3 millimeters) spikelets . Each spikelet has one or two awns of equal length, which arise on the back of the lemma.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Aira was established in 1753. Synonyms for Aira L. are: Aspris Adans. , Caryophyllea Opiz , Fiorinia Parl. , Fussia Schur .

The Aira species are common in Eurasia , North Africa and Macaronesia and are also found on mountains in tropical Africa. All eight species occur in Europe. In Germany, the two types of clove-wreath ( Aira caryophyllea ) and early wreath ( Aira praecox ) originally occur.

The genus Aira includes about eight species:

Clove oatweed ( Aira caryophyllea L. ): It is widespread from the Azores and Canaries across Europe and northwest Africa to Iran and the Caucasus and from Tibet to the western Himalayas and is also found on mountains in tropical Africa. It is a neophyte in North and South America, Australia and New Zealand .
Aira cupaniana cast. : It occurs in the Mediterranean area and on Lanzarote .
Haar-Oaterschmiele ( Aira elegantissima Schur ): The original homeland is Morocco , Algeria and the area from southern Europe and southern central Europe to northern Iran. As an ornamental plant and wild, it also occurs in Central Europe and North America.
Early Haferschmiele ( Aira praecox L. ): It occurs in Europe and the Canary Islands and is inconsistent in Turkey. She is a neophyte in North America.
Aira provincialis Jord. : It occurs only in south-eastern France and Corsica .
Aira scoparia Adamović : It only occurs in Macedonia .
Aira tenorei cast. : It occurs in Northwest Africa , Libya and Southern Europe.
Aira uniaristata Lag. & Rodr. : It occurs in the Balearic Islands , Spain , Portugal , Morocco and Libya.

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literature

Eckehart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner (Ed.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. 10th edited edition. tape 4 : Vascular Plants: Critical Volume . Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Aira. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 8, 2016.
^ ^A ^b Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names. Volume 2. Types and varieties. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 , p. 1188.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Gaskell Tutin: Aira L. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. 227–228 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
↑ Benito Valdés, Hildemar Scholz, with contributions by Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Gerald Parolly: Poaceae (pro parte majore). Aira. In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Berlin 2009.
^ M. Doğan: Aira. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 9 (Juncaceae to Gramineae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85224-516-5 , pp. 336 .
↑ J. McNeill, FR Barrie, HM Burdet, V. Demoulin, DL Hawksworth, K. Marhold, DH Nicolson, J. Prado, AJ Silverside, JE Skog, J. Wiersema, NJ Turland (Eds.): International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code) adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. In: Regnum Vegetabile. Volume 146, 2006, Article 60.11 and Recommendation 60C.1, online .

Web links

Commons : Haferschmielen ( Aira ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Aira caryophyllea. In: FloraWeb.de.
Aira praecox. In: FloraWeb.de.

[WCSP-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Aira. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 8, 2016.

[Zander2008-2] A ^b Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names. Volume 2. Types and varieties. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 , p. 1188.

[FE5-3] Thomas Gaskell Tutin: Aira L. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. 227–228 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

[Euro+Med-4] Benito Valdés, Hildemar Scholz, with contributions by Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Gerald Parolly: Poaceae (pro parte majore). Aira. In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Berlin 2009.

[FT9-5] M. Doğan: Aira. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 9 (Juncaceae to Gramineae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85224-516-5 , pp. 336 .

[ICBN-6] J. McNeill, FR Barrie, HM Burdet, V. Demoulin, DL Hawksworth, K. Marhold, DH Nicolson, J. Prado, AJ Silverside, JE Skog, J. Wiersema, NJ Turland (Eds.): International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code) adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress Vienna, Austria, July 2005. In: Regnum Vegetabile. Volume 146, 2006, Article 60.11 and Recommendation 60C.1, online .