Species Puccinellia distans
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There aren’t any identifications of Puccinellia distans.
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Location unknown
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Etymology of Puccinellia:
For Benedetto Luigi Puccinelli (1808–1850), Italian botanist, professor of botany at the University of Lucca and director of the botanical garden of Lucca from 1830–1850. He wrote a book about the flora of the Lucca, the two-volume Synopsis Plantarum in agro Lucensi sponte nascentium (The History of Plants Born in the Territory of Lucca) (1841).
Etymology of distans:
From the Latin distans = 'distant' meaning 'separate' or 'different'
Scientific name:
Puccinellia distans (L.) Parl.
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Protologue:
Flora Italiana 1 (1848)
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Year published:
1848
Perennial to 65 cm. Leaves linear. Spikelets in a pyramidal to elongate panicle more than 15 mm diam., closely overlapping, at least some branches naked in lower half and spreading. Apr.--Oct. Rivers, canals and furrows, SE (European weed)
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Puccinellia distans.