| Lygeum | |
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| Lygeum spartum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Clade: | BOP clade |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Nardodae |
| Tribe: | Lygeeae J.Presl |
| Genus: | Lygeum Loefl. ex L. |
| Species: | L. spartum
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| Binomial name | |
| Lygeum spartum | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
MHNT
Lygeum is a genus of Mediterranean plants in the grass family.[4][5] It is placed in its own tribe Lygeeae, which is sister to Nardeae.[6]
The only known species is Lygeum spartum, commonly called esparto grass, cord grass[3][7] or albardine, which is distributed in arid areas around the Mediterranean Sea.[8] It is similar to Stipa tenacissima[9] and both species are used to produce a fiber product known as esparto or esparto grass.[10]
- ^ Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise Marie François Joseph. 1812. Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 140
- ^ Tropicos, Spartum P. Beauv.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1754. Genera Plantarum, ed. 5 27, (522).
- ^ Abdeddaim-Boughanmi, K. and M. Kaid-Harche. (2009). Structure, ultrastructure of the anther, pollen microsporogenesis and morphology of pollen grains of two populations of Lygeum spartum L. in Algeria. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4(3), 201-05.
- ^ Soreng, Robert J.; Peterson, Paul M.; Romaschenko, Konstantin; Davidse, Gerrit; Teisher, Jordan K.; Clark, Lynn G.; Barberá, Patricia; Gillespie, Lynn J.; Zuloaga, Fernando O. (2017). "A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) II: An update and a comparison of two 2015 classifications". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 55 (4): 259–290. doi:10.1111/jse.12262. hdl:10261/240149. ISSN 1674-4918.
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Lygeum, Sparto steppico, Esparto Grass
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
grinwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Garcı́a-Fuentes, A., et al. (2001). Review of communities of Lygeum spartum L. in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula (western Mediterranean). Journal of Arid Environments 48(3), 323-39.
- ^ Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 1992 onwards. Lygeum. Archived 19 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine The Grass Genera of the World. DELTA – DEscription Language for TAxonomy. Version: 18 December 2012.
