Stipa
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Stipa is a genus of 141 species<ref name = powo/> of large perennial hermaphroditic grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and spear grass. They are placed in the subfamily Pooideae and the tribe Stipeae, which also contains many species formerly assigned to Stipa, which have since been reclassified into new genera.
Many species are important forage crops. Several species such as Stipa brachytricha, S. arundinacea, S. splendens, S. calamagrostis, S. gigantea and S. pulchra are used as ornamental plants. One former species, esparto grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), is used for crafts and extensively in paper making.
It is a coarse grass with inrolled leaves and a panicle patterned inflorescence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
EcologyEdit
Species of the genus Stipa can occur in grasslands<ref>Elgaily Osman Ahmed, 1983</ref> or in savanna habitats. Certain specific prairie plant associations are dominated by grasses of the genus Stipa, which genus often lends its name to the terminology of some prairie types.<ref>Ecological Society of America, 1921</ref> In some areas of the western United States grasses of the genus Stipa form a significant part of the understory of Blue Oak savannas, and were even a more important element prehistorically before the invasion of many European grasses.<ref>*C. Michael Hogan, 2008</ref>
SpeciesEdit
141 species are currently accepted.<ref name = powo/> Template:Div col
- Stipa academica Template:Small
- Stipa × adamii Template:Small
- Stipa adoxa Template:Small
- Stipa aktauensis Template:Small
- Stipa × alaica Template:Small
- Stipa × albasiensis Template:Small
- Stipa aliena Template:Small
- Stipa almeriensis Template:Small
- Stipa annua Template:Small
- Stipa apertifolia Template:Small
- Stipa arabica Template:Small
- Stipa araxensis Template:Small
- Stipa arenosa Template:Small
- Stipa argillosa Template:Small
- Stipa asperella Template:Small
- Stipa × assyriaca Template:Small
- Stipa atlantica Template:Small
- Stipa austroaltaica Template:Small
- Stipa austroitalica Template:Small
- Stipa austromongolica Template:Small
- Stipa badachschanica Template:Small
- Stipa baicalensis Roshev.
- Stipa balansae Template:Small
- Stipa × balkanabatica Template:Small
- Stipa barbata Desf.
- Stipa barrancaensis Template:Small
- Stipa basiplumosa Template:Small
- Stipa bavarica Template:Small
- Stipa baxoiensis Template:Small
- Stipa borysthenica Template:Small
- Stipa brachyptera Template:Small
- Stipa × brevicallosa Template:Small
- Stipa breviflora Template:Small
- Stipa breviseta Template:Small
- Stipa × brozhiana Template:Small
- Stipa bungeana Template:Small
- Stipa capillacea Template:Small
- Stipa capillata L.
- Stipa caucasica Template:Small
- Stipa × consanguinea Template:Small
- Stipa cretacea Template:Small
- Stipa × czerepanovii Template:Small
- Stipa daghestanica Template:Small
- Stipa dasyphylla Template:Small
- Stipa dasyvaginata Template:Small
- Stipa diastrophica Template:Small
- Stipa dickorei Template:Small
- Stipa donetzica Template:Small
- Stipa dregeana Template:Small
- Stipa drobovii Template:Small
- Stipa durifolia Template:Small
- Stipa × dzungarica Template:Small
- Stipa ehrenbergiana Template:Small
- Stipa endotricha Template:Small
- Stipa × fallacina Template:Small
- Stipa × fallax Template:Small
- Stipa feltrina Template:Small
- Stipa gaubae Template:Small
- Stipa × gegarkunii Template:Small
- Stipa glareosa Template:Small
- Stipa × gnezdilloi Template:Small
- Stipa gracilis Template:Small
- Stipa grandis P.A.Smirn.
- Stipa hans-meyeri Template:Small
- Stipa henryi Template:Small
- Stipa × heptapotamica Template:Small
- Stipa himalaica Template:Small
- Stipa × hissarica Template:Small
- Stipa hoggarensis Template:Small
- Stipa hohenackeriana Template:Small
- Stipa holosericea Template:Small
- Stipa iberica Template:Small
- Stipa illimanica Template:Small
- Stipa iranica Template:Small
- Stipa isoldeae Template:Small
- Stipa issaevii Template:Small
- Stipa juncea Template:Small
- Stipa juncoides Template:Small
- Stipa × kamelinii Template:Small
- Stipa karakabinica Template:Small
- Stipa karataviensis Template:Small
- Stipa karjaginii Template:Small
- Stipa kempirica Template:Small
- Stipa keniensis Template:Small
- Stipa khovdensis Template:Small
- Stipa kirghisorum Template:Small
- Stipa klimesii Template:Small
- Stipa korshinskyi Template:Small
- Stipa kotuchovii Template:Small
- Stipa krylovii Template:Small
- Stipa × ladakhensis Template:Small
- Stipa lagascae Template:Small
- Stipa larisae Template:Small
- Stipa leptogluma Template:Small
- Stipa lessingiana Template:Small
- Stipa letourneuxii Template:Small
- Stipa lingua Template:Small
- Stipa lipskyi Template:Small
- Stipa longiplumosa Template:Small
- Stipa macbridei Template:Small
- Stipa macroglossa Template:Small
- Stipa magnifica Template:Small
- Stipa × majalis Template:Small
- Stipa × manrakica Template:Small
- Stipa margelanica Template:Small
- Stipa martinovskyi Template:Small
- Stipa mayeri Template:Small
- Stipa media Template:Small
- Stipa meridionalis Template:Small
- Stipa milleana Template:Small
- Stipa mongolorum Template:Small
- Stipa munroana Template:Small
- Stipa nachiczevanica Template:Small
- Stipa narynica Template:Small
- Stipa nitens Template:Small
- Stipa novakii Template:Small
- Stipa offneri Template:Small
- Stipa okmirii Template:Small
- Stipa orientalis Template:Small
- Stipa ovczinnikovii Template:Small
- Stipa penicillata Template:Small
- Stipa pennata L. – feather grass
- Stipa pulcherrima Template:Small
- Stipa pungens Template:Small
- Stipa purpurea Template:Small
- Stipa rechingeri Template:Small
- Stipa regeliana Template:Small
- Stipa richteriana Template:Small
- Stipa roborowskyi Template:Small
- Stipa rohmooiana Template:Small
- Stipa rosea Template:Small
- Stipa sareptana Template:Small
- Stipa scholzii Template:Small
- Stipa scirpea Template:Small
- Stipa sczerbakovii Template:Small
- Stipa shanxiensis Template:Small
- Stipa sicula Template:Small
- Stipa sosnowskyi Template:Small
- Stipa subaristata Template:Small
- Stipa × subdrobovii Template:Small
- Stipa subplumosa Template:Small
- Stipa subsessiliflora Template:Small
- Stipa syreistschikowii Template:Small
- Stipa × tadzhikistanica Template:Small
- Stipa × talassica Template:Small
- Stipa tianschanica Template:Small
- Stipa tigrensis Template:Small
- Stipa tirsa Steven
- Stipa tortuosa Template:Small
- Stipa transcarpatica Template:Small
- Stipa tremula Template:Small
- Stipa trichoides Template:Small
- Stipa tulcanensis Template:Small (unplaced)
- Stipa turkestanica Hack.
- Stipa × tzveleviana Template:Small
- Stipa × tzvelevii Template:Small
- Stipa ucrainica Template:Small
- Stipa × zaissanica Template:Small
- Stipa zalesskii Wilensky
- Stipa zeravshanica Template:Small
- Stipa zhadaensis Template:Small
- Stipa zuvantica Template:Small
Formerly placed hereEdit
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- Achnatherum calamagrostis (L.) P.Beauv. (as S. calamagrostis (L.) Wahlenb.)
- Achnatherum robustum (Vasey) Barkworth (as S. robusta (Vasey) Scribn.)
- Anemanthele lessoniana Template:Small (as Stipa arundinacea Hook.f.)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Celtica gigantea (Link) F. M. Vazquez & Barkworth (as S. gigantea Link)
- Eriocoma arida Template:Small (as Stipa arida Template:Small and S. mormonum Template:Small)
- Eriocoma hymenoides Template:Small (as S. hymenoides Template:Small)
- Hesperostipa comata Template:Small (as Stipa comata Template:Small)
- Hesperostipa spartea Template:Small (as Stipa spartea Trin.)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Jarava ichu Ruiz & Pav. (as S. ichu (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth)
- Macrochloa tenacissima (Loefl. ex L.) Kunth (as S. tenacissima Loefl. ex L.)
- Nassella hyalina Template:Small (as Stipa hyalina Template:Small and S. avenacea Template:Small)
- Nassella leucotricha (Trin. & Rupr.) R.W.Pohl (as S. leucotricha Trin. & Rupr.)
- Nassella mexicana Template:Small (as Stipa mexicana Template:Small)
- Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth (as S. pulchra Hitchc.)
- Nassella viridula Template:Small (as S. viridula Trin.)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Neotrinia splendens (Trin.) M.Nobis, P.D.Gudkova & A.Nowak (as S. splendens Trin.)
- Pappostipa speciosa Template:Small (as Stipa speciosa Template:Small)
- Patis coreana Template:Small (as Stipa coreana Honda) – Korean needlegrass<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Piptochaetium avenaceum Template:Small (as Stipa avenacea Template:Small)
- Piptochaetium virescens Template:Small (as Stipa virescens Template:Small and S. avenacea Template:Small)
- Stipellula capensis Template:Small (as Stipa capensis Template:Small)