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Apera

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Apera is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America.

Species

Loose Silky-bent

Genus

  1. PhylumMollusca
  2. ClassGastropoda
  3. OrderStylommatophora
  4. FamilyRhytididae
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark
Observations1,211

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
58
With media
34
Family
Poaceae
Collections
MSC, US, MO, BUF, CAS, MNHN
Recorded in
United States, Argentina, Mexico, Turkmenistan, France, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Morocco

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Apera is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. Species Apera baytopiana Dogan - Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey Apera intermedia Hack. - Turkey, Aegean Islands, Iraq, Iran, Caucasus; naturalized in Primorye Apera interrupta (L.) P.Beauv. - dense silkybent, interrupted windgrass - Eurasia and North Africa from Portugal to Sweden to Algeria to Kazakhstan; naturalized in Argentina, Chile, United States, Canada Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv. - loose silkybent, common windgrass - Eurasia and North Africa from Canary Islands to Denmark to Yakutia; naturalized in United States, Canada, and Russian Far East Apera triaristata Dogan - Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey formerly included see Agrostis Anemanthele Dichelachne Muhlenbergia Sporobolus

==See also== List of Poaceae genera

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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