3417 Avenella Drejer
- Drejer, Fl. Excurs. Hafn.: 32 (1838).
- Lerchenfeldia Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 753 (1866).
Notes: The majority of northwestern European and North American authors have included Avenella in Deschampsia (e.g., Clarke 1980a; Chiapella et al. in Soreng et al. 2003; Barkworth 2007b). We accept it as a morphologically and cytologically distinct segregate at rank of genus, like Vahlodea (below). See Chiapella (2007) for molecular support.
