Feather grass

…It is a temperate forest plant that grows in Hokkaido and Honshu, and is distributed from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin in the north to the northern and northeastern parts of mainland China. The Japanese name was derived from the feathery awns of the broad genus Stipa (English name: feather grass), but this is now further divided into several genera, and in Japan there are two genera, Achnatherum in the narrow sense and Orthoraphium , which is closely related, and no species belonging to Stipa have been found. [Tetsuo Koyama] …

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…温帯林の植物で，北海道と本州に生じ，北は千島列島，サハリンから中国大陸の北部や東北部に分布している。和名は広義のハネガヤ属Stipa(英名feather grass)のもつ羽毛状の芒によって名付けられたが，現在これはさらに数属に分けられ，日本には狭義のハネガヤ属Achnatherumとそれに近いヒロハノハネガヤ属Orthoraphiumの2属があり，Stipaに属する種は見られない。【小山 鉄夫】。…

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