Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Stipa > Stipa ichuStipa ichu (Peruvian feather grass)Synonyms: Jarava arundinacea (homotypic); Jarava eriostachya; Jarava ichu; Jarava usitata; Stipa eriostachya; Stipa gynerioides; Stipa ichu f. ichu; Stipa ichu f. interrupta; Stipa ichu var. gynerioides; Stipa ichu var. ichu; Stipa jarava; Stipa liebmannii Jarava ichu, commonly known as Peruvian feathergrass, ichhu, paja brava, and paja ichu, is a grass endemic to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentina, growing extensively in the Andean altiplano. It is used as fodder for livestock, principally South American camelids like the llama. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 2Romerolagus diazi, Fernando A. Cervantes, Consuelo Lorenzo, and Robert S. Hoffmann, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 360, pp. 1-7 (1990) ♦ 3Sylvilagus cunicularius, Fernando A. Cervantes, Consuelo Lorenzo, Julieta Vargas, and Thorvald Holmes, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 412, pp. 1-4 (1992) |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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