| Trisetum molle (Michx.) Kunth | |
| Publ. & Syn. | Trisetum subspicatum f. maidenii auct. amer., non Gand. (1902). - Trisetum spicatum var. maidenii sensu Fernald, Rhodora 18: 196 (1916). |
| Notes | Löve and Löve (1965) stated the name Trisetum triflorum to have priority for a species as T. molle is a later homonym. The basionym of T. molle, Avena mollis Michx., is an invalid homonym within Avena but this does not invalidate the name T. molle within Trisetum. Subspecies pilosiglume is reported to be hexaploid and was the only additional race of T. spicatum (s. lat.) accepted by Soreng et al. (2003). It seems to be an Atlantic part of the more widespread T. molle. Böcher et al. (1978) accepted two taxa for Greenland but the differences reported are almost only in hairs of the glumes. Variety maidenii is probably not a relevant name for us. Hultén (1942) synonymized var. maidenii with T. alaskanum Nash. Aiken concluded that var. maidenii should not be recognized as a taxon. Elven commented that this is probably true, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Trisetum subspicatum f. maidenii Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 182 (1902), was described from Australia: New South Wales, leg. Maiden, and may have a reality as a taxon at some level in the Southern Hemisphere but probably not in the north. For a last name, var. majus, consult Rydberg (1906). |
| Chromosomes | 42 (6x). - Europe (Iceland), Siberia, Canada, U.S.A., Greenland. - Numerous reports, for "spicatum", "pilosiglume", "triflorum", and "molle". The question whether there are two ploidy levels in this subspecies remains open. Sokolovskaya and Probatova (1975) reported 2n = 28 for both "molle" and "alaskanum" from the Russian Far East. |
| Geography | Asian (NE) - amphi-Beringian - North American - amphi-Atlantic (W): SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL ICE. |
| Distribution | N = F AN = s AO = r C = ? GW = f D = S Ic = s E = F CC = r HL = r CE = s CS = s YK = r AW = s GE = s Kh = r CW = s Tm = r [ key ] |
| Parent taxon | Trisetum Pers. |
| PAF ID | 341204 |