Eragrostis minor
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Eragrostis minor | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
Genus: | Eragrostis |
Species: | E. minor
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Eragrostis minor | |
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Eragrostis minor, the little lovegrass or smaller stinkgrass, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae, native to most of the subtropical and warm temperate Old World, and introduced to North America, South America, and Australia.[1][2] Preferring disturbed open places with little competition, and sandy or gravelly soils, it is often found growing on rail embankments, road verges, cracks in sidewalks, and waste areas.[3] Its seeds are edible, but quite small and difficult to harvest and handle, so it is usually regarded as a famine food.[4]
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Mass effect
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Flowers
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Seedheads with human finger for scale
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Ripe seedheads
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Eragrostis minor is often found growing in pavement cracks
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A particularly large individual
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Uprooted specimen with coin for scale
Diseases
E. minor is the only known host as of 2023[update] of the Eragrostis minor streak virus.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Eragrostis minor Host". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ↑ "Eragrostis minor (Little Lovegrass)". MinnesotaWildflowers.info. Minnesota Wildflowers. 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
Also known as: Smaller Stinkgrass
- ↑ Hilty, John (20 November 2019). "Lesser Love Grass". illinoiswildflowers.info. Illinois Wildflowers. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ↑ Fern, Ken (20 July 2021). "Useful Tropical Plants Eragrostis minor". tropical.theferns.info. Tropical Plants Database. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ↑
- Martin, Darren P.; Linderme, Daphne; Lefeuvre, Pierre; Shepherd, Dionne N.; Varsani, Arvind (2011). "Eragrostis minor streak virus: an Asian streak virus in Africa". Annotated Sequence Record. Archives of Virology. 156 (7): 1299–1303. doi:10.1007/s00705-011-1026-8. PMID 21614438. S2CID 3151261.
- Cited by Karavina et al., 2014.
Categories:
- Eragrostis
- Grasses of Africa
- Grasses of Europe
- Grasses of Asia
- Flora of Madeira
- Flora of the Azores
- Flora of Algeria
- Flora of Egypt
- Flora of Senegal
- Flora of Mauritania
- Flora of Northeast Tropical Africa
- Flora of East Tropical Africa
- Flora of Madagascar
- Flora of Southwestern Europe
- Flora of Southeastern Europe
- Flora of Middle Europe
- Flora of Eastern Europe
- Flora of temperate Asia
- Flora of tropical Asia
- Flora of Java
- Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands
- Flora of New Guinea
- Plants described in 1827