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Red tussock grass

Chionochloa rubra Zotov

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Chionochloa

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Red tussock grass: Red tussock grass at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, September 2011
Photo: JonKloske, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (4)
English
Red tussock grass
Finnish
Vaskilumiheinä
Persian
علف بافهای سرخ
Spanish
Danthonia antarctica var minor, Danthonia antarctica var. minor

Synonyms

  • Chionochloa rubra var. rubra

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.