Aira tenoreiGuss.

WFO wfo-0000845232 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Aira tenorei, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-21 / obs. 138769940

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
2482291
Filed as
Aira tenorei Guss.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Aira tenorei is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Baleares, Corse, France, Italy, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCorseFranceItalySiciliaSpain BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Aira tenorei, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Italy ITA
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 32 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aira capillaris subsp. tenorei (Guss.) Coss. & Durieu
  • Aira capillaris var. pulchella Knoche
  • Aira capillaris var. tenorii (Guss.) Walp.
  • Aira caryophyllea subsp. intermedia (Guss.) K.Richt.
  • Aira caryophyllea var. inflexa (Loisel.) Lamotte
  • Aira caryophyllea var. pulchella Gillet & Magne
  • Aira caryophyllea var. tenorii (Guss.) T.Durand & Schinz
  • Aira corymbosa Fauché & Chaub.
  • Aira inflexa Loisel.
  • Aira intermedia Guss.
  • Aira provincialis Gennari ex Nyman
  • Aira pulchella (Ten.) Link
  • Aira pulchella subsp. intermedia (Guss.) Maire
  • Aira pulchella subsp. tenorei (Guss.) Asch. & Graebm. ex Bonte
  • Aira pulchella var. tenorei (Guss.) Fiori
  • Aira tenorei subsp. intermedia (Guss.) K.Richt.
  • Aira tenorei subsp. mixta (Godr.) K.Richt.
  • Aira tenorei var. aristata Bonnet & Barratte
  • Aira tenorei var. mutica Godr.
  • Aira tenorei var. semiaristata Godr.
  • Aira tenorii f. intermedia (Guss.) Maire & Weiller
  • Aira tenorii var. intermedia (Guss.) K.Richt.
  • Airella tenorei (Guss.) Dumort.
  • Airopsis pulchella Ten.

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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