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Deschampsia antarctica

Cuadra, Pedro;Guajardo, Joselin;Carrasco-Orellana, Cristian;Stappung, Yazmina;Fajardo, Víctor;Herrera, Raúl

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Deschampsia antarctica

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Also known as Antarctic hair grass

species of plant

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Vinony's link graph records 39 inbound references to Deschampsia antarctica, and connects out to Guinness World Records, Antarctica and plant.

It is catalogued under topics including Deschampsia, Flora of Antarctica and Flora of central Chile.

Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyPoaceae
Native toAntarctica, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South, Crozet Is., Falkland Is., Heard-McDonald Is., Kerguelen, South Georgia, South Sandwich Is.
Observations recorded1,376

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
230
With media
147
Family
Poaceae
Collections
US, MNHN, RENO, NY
Recorded in
Argentina, Terres Australes Et Antarctiques FrançAises, Chile, French Southern Territories, Netherlands

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Deschampsia
Image
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taxon rank
species
taxon name
Deschampsia antarctica
Commons category
Deschampsia antarctica
taxon common name
Antarctic hair grass
short name
D. antarctica
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Encyclopedic overview

Deschampsia antarctica, the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort).

Ecology

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

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