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June 2025

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genus

Elymus L.

This genus name was first published in Sp. Pl. : 83 (1753)  

At the time of this classification snapshot, this genus name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-4000013270.

Statistics

Synonyms of Elymus

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link
Asprella Humb. Bot. Mag. (Römer & Usteri) 3(7): 5 (1790) wfo-4000003288
Braconotia Godr. Fl. Lorraine 3: 191 (1844) wfo-4000005288
Clinelymus (Griseb.) Nevski Izv. Bot. Sada Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 30: 640 (1931 publ. 1932) wfo-4000008622
Crithopyrum Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 344 (1854) wfo-4000009717
Cryptopyrum Heynh. Alph. Aufz. Gew. : 174 (1846) wfo-4000009919
Elymotrigia Hyl. Nord. Kärlväxtfl. 1: 371 (1953) wfo-4000013268
Elysitanion Bowden Canad. J. Bot. 45: 721 (1967) wfo-4000013273
Elytrigia Desv. Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 190 (1810) wfo-4000013279
Goulardia Husn. Graminées : 83 (1899) wfo-4000016091
Hystrix Moench Methodus : 294 (1794) wfo-4000018908
Pascopyrum Á.Löve Taxon 29: 547 (1980) wfo-4000028282
Polyantherix Nees Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 284 (1838) wfo-4000030681
Psammopyrum Á.Löve Veröff. Geobot. Inst. ETH Stiftung Rübel Zürich 87: 50 (1986) wfo-4000031307
Pseudelymus Barkworth & D.R.Dewey Great Basin Naturalist 43(4): 570 (1983) wfo-4000031366
Roegneria K.Koch Linnaea 21: 413 (1848) wfo-4000033384
Semeiostachys Drobow Fl. Uzbekistan. 1: 281, 539 (1941) wfo-4000035023
Sitanion Raf. J. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat. Arts 89: 103 (1819) wfo-4000035557
Sitospelos Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 36, 606 (1763) wfo-4000043939
Connorochloa Barkworth, S.W.L.Jacobs & H.Q.Zhang Breed. Sci. 59: 685 (2009) wfo-4000046360
Elytrigium Benth. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 130 (1881) wfo-4100002266

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These names are not yet placed in the taxonomy, but may be associated with Elymus:

Name Author Protologue Nomenclator WFO link