Bromus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Bromus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bromus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bromus
Bromus is a large genus of grasses, classified in its own tribe Bromeae. They are commonly known as bromes, brome grasses, cheat grasses, or chess grasses. Estimates in the scientific literature of the number of species have ranged from 100 to 400, but plant taxonomists currently recognize around 160–170 species.
Bromus is part of the cool-season grass lineage (subfamily Pooideae), which includes about 3300 species. Within Pooideae, Bromus is classified in tribe Bromeae (it is the only genus in the tribe). Bromus is closely related to the wheat-grass lineage (tribe Triticeae) that includes such economically important genera as Triticum (wheat), Hordeum (barley) and Secale (rye).
...Bromus in languages:
- Dutch
- Dravik
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Bromopsis
- Bromus
- Bromus aegyptiacus
- Bromus bonariensis
- Bromus brachyantherus
- Bromus cabrerensis
- Bromus condensatus
- Bromus firmior
- Bromus flexuosus
- Bromus formosanus
- Bromus hallii
- Bromus haussknechtii
- Bromus lanatus
- Bromus maroccanus
- Bromus modestus
- Bromus moellendorffianus
- Bromus moeszii
- Bromus morrisonensis
- Bromus natalensis
- Bromus parodii
- Bromus paulsenii
- Bromus pinetorum
- Bromus pitensis
- Bromus scopulorum
- Bromus segetum
- Bromus timorensis
- Bromus tomentosus
- Bromus villosissimus
- Bromus × ferronii
- Ceratochloa
- Genea
- Neobromus
Child Taxa
- Bromus alopecuros
- Bromus arenarius
- Bromus arvensis
- Bromus brachystachys
- Bromus briziformis
- Bromus bromoideus
- Bromus commutatus
- Bromus danthoniae
- Bromus grossus
- Bromus hordeaceus
- Bromus intermedius
- Bromus interruptus
- Bromus japonicus
- Bromus lanceolatus
- Bromus lepidus
- Bromus leptoclados
- Bromus pectinatus
- Bromus pseudobrachystachys
- Bromus pseudosecalinus
- Bromus racemosus
- Bromus remotiflorus
- Bromus scoparius
- Bromus secalinus
- Bromus setifolius
- Bromus speciosus
- Bromus squarrosus































































































































































