Danthonia

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Danthonia_intermedia.jpg | image_caption = ''Danthonia intermedia'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Danthonia | authority = DC. | type_species = ''Danthonia spicata'' | type_species_authority = (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.<ref>{{Tropicos|40021777|Danthonia}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=i>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451349 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> | synonyms = * ''Sieglingia'' Bernh. * ''Merathrepta'' Raf. * ''Brachatera'' Desv. * ''Triodon'' Baumg. * ''Danthosieglingia'' Domin }}

'''''Danthonia''''' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family.<ref>Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1805. Flore Française. Troisième Édition 3: 32</ref> Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as '''oatgrass''', but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include '''heathgrass''' and '''wallaby grass'''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Danthonia |website=Altervista Flora Italiana |title=Genere ''Danthonia''}}</ref><ref>{{eFloras|2|109285|Danthonia |family=Poaceae |first1=Zhen-lan |last1=Wu |first2=Sylvia M. |last2=Phillips}}</ref><ref>{{Tropicos|32|40021777|Danthonia|DC.}}</ref><ref>{{GRIN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=DANTHONIA |website=Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) |title=''Danthonia'' |access-date=2007-07-06 |archive-date=2023-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621062507/https://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=DANTHONIA |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:575410 |website=Atlas of Living Australia |title=''Danthonia'' DC., Wallaby grasses}}</ref><ref>Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. [http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/da'nia.htm The grass genera of the world] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017213006/http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/da%27nia.htm |date=2007-10-17 }}: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. Version: 28 November 2005.</ref> Australian species have since been reclassified into the genus ''Rytidosperma''.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://bioone.org/journals/annals-of-the-missouri-botanical-garden/volume-97/issue-3/2009006/A-Generic-Classification-of-the-Danthonioideae-Poaceaea-classinternal-link-hreffn1/10.3417/2009006.short|title=A Generic Classification of the Danthonioideae (Poaceae)|year=2010 |doi=10.3417/2009006 |last1=Linder |first1=H. Peter |last2=Baeza |first2=Marcelo |last3=Barker |first3=Nigel P. |last4=Galley |first4=Chloé |last5=Humphreys |first5=Aelys M. |last6=Lloyd |first6=Kelvin M. |last7=Orlovich |first7=David A. |last8=Pirie |first8=Michael D. |last9=Simon |first9=Bryan K. |last10=Walsh |first10=Neville |last11=Verboom |first11=G. Anthony |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=306–364 |bibcode=2010AnMBG..97..306L |s2cid=86082569 }}</ref>

; Species<ref name=i/><ref name="the plant list">{{cite web|title=''Danthonia''|work=The Plant List (2010). Version 1.|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Poaceae/Danthonia/ |access-date=25 December 2011}}</ref><ref>{{BONAP|ref |genus=Danthonia}}</ref> * ''Danthonia alpina'' Vest – central + southern Europe; Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus * ''Danthonia annableae'' P.M.Peterson & Rúgolo – Bolivia, Argentina * ''Danthonia araucana'' Phil. – Chile * ''Danthonia boliviensis'' Renvoize – Bolivia * ''Danthonia × breviaristata'' (Beck) Vierh – France, Italy, Austria, Czech Rep, Romania * ''Danthonia breviseta'' Hack. – Rio de Janeiro * ''Danthonia californica'' Bol. – BC ALB SAS WA OR CA NV ID UT MT WY SD CO AZ NM; Chile * ''Danthonia cernua'' Döll – Brazil * ''Danthonia chaseana'' Conert – Minas Gerais * ''Danthonia chiapasensis'' Davidse – Chiapas * ''Danthonia chilensis'' É.Desv. – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''Danthonia cirrata'' Hack. & Arechav. – Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * ''Danthonia compressa'' Austin – mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, slender oatgrass – eastern North America from Georgia to Nova Scotia + Ontario * ''Danthonia decumbens'' (L.) DC. – common heath grass – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus * ''Danthonia domingensis'' Hack. & Pilg. – Hispaniola, Jamaica * ''Danthonia holm-nielsenii'' Laegaard – Ecuador * ''Danthonia intermedia'' Vasey – timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass – western United States, Canada, Russian Far East * ''Danthonia malacantha'' (Steud.) Pilg. – Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''Danthonia melanathera'' (Hack.) Bernardello – Argentina * ''Danthonia montevidensis'' Hack. & Arechav. – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * ''Danthonia parryi'' Scribn. – ALB SAS CO MT WY NM * ''Danthonia rhizomata'' Swallen – Brazil, Uruguay * ''Danthonia rugoloana'' Sulekic – Salta * ''Danthonia secundiflora'' J.Presl – from Mexico to Uruguay * ''Danthonia sericea'' Nutt. – eastern + central United States * ''Danthonia spicata'' (L.) Roem. & Schult. – poverty oatgrass, poverty grass – from Alaska + Greenland to Veracruz * ''Danthonia unispicata'' (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun – onespike oatgrass – ALB BC SAS WA ID MT OR WY SD UT NV CA

; Formerly included<ref name=i/> A number of species which were formerly classified under ''Danthonia'' are now included in ''Amphibromus'', ''Astrebla'', ''Chionochloa'', ''Joycea'', ''Karroochloa'', ''Monachather'', ''Merxmuellera'', ''Notodanthonia'', ''Plinthanthesis'', ''Rytidosperma'' or ''Schismus''.

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Category:Danthonia Category:Poaceae genera