Mibora

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Poeae
Subtribus: Sesleriinae
Genus: Mibora
Species: M. maroccana – M. minima
Name

Mibora Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 495 (1763)

Type species: Mibora minima (L.) Desv., Fl. Anjou: 46 (1827)

Synonyms

Homotypic
Knappia Sm., Engl. Bot.: t. 1127 (1803), nom. superfl.
Heterotypic
Chamagrostis Borkh. in A.W.E.Wibel, Prim. Fl. Werth.: 126 (1799)
SturmiaHoppe in J.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild. 1(7): [1] (1799), nom. superfl.

References

Adanson, M. (1763) Familles des Plantes 2: 495.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Mibora in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 17. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Mibora. Published online. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 17.
Tropicos.org 2013. Mibora. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 17 Dec. 2013.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Mibora. Published online. Accessed: 17 Dec. 2013. Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Sand Grass
suomi: Tonttuheinät

Mibora minima

Mibora, or sandgrass,[3] is a genus of European and North African plants in the grass family.[4][5]
Description

Mibora is a genus of very small to small annual grasses with erect or sometimes quickly ascending stems (often called culms) between 2 and 13 cm (0.79 and 5.12 in) long, growing in tufts. As in all grasses the leaves consist at its base of a sheath closely enveloping the culm, a free standing blade at its tip and a ligule at the inside/upside where sheath and blade meet. The sheaths are tender, shallowly grooved rounded at their back, 0.2–1 mm (0.0079–0.0394 in) long. The ligule is membranaceus and lacks fine hairs (or cilia). The blade is flat, folded along the midline or enrolled and 1–6 cm (0.39–2.36 in) long which are up to 0.5 to 0.7 mm (0.020 to 0.028 in) wide and have a stump tip. The spikelets consist of one fertile floret, which has 3 anthers.[6]
Key to the species
1 Inflorescence embraced at base by a subtending leaf. Leaf blades folded along the midline or enrolled. Glumes similar in texture to the fertile lemma. Lemma ovate. Morocco.
→ Mibora maroccana
- Inflorescence without a leaf at its base. Leaf blades flat or enrolled. Glumes more firm than the fertile lemma. Lemma obtuse. Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, middle and southern England, Wales, and very rare in the eastern Mediterranean.[7][8][9] Introduced in the eastern USA and Canada, but does not maintain itself.
→ Mibora minima
References

1795 illustration by Johann Georg Sturm - Figure 14 from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
NRCS. "Mibora". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 9 July 2015.
Adanson, Michel. 1763. Familles des Plantes 2: 495 in French
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
Editorial Committee of the Flora of North America (1993). Flora of North America: Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195310719.
The Plant List search for Mibora
Cabi, E. & M. Doğan. 2012. Poaceae. 690–756. In A. Güner, S. Aslan, T. Ekim, M. Vural & M. T. Babaç (eds.) Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi. Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını, Istanbul
Altervista Flora Italiana, Cappellini minori, Early Sand Grass, Zwerggras, Mibora minima