Cinnagrostis velutina(Nees & Meyen) P.M.Peterson, Soreng, Romasch. & Barberá

WFO wfo-1000031403 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Cinnagrostis velutina, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. a Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-05 / obs. 60915507
Cinnagrostis velutina, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. b Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60915516
Cinnagrostis velutina, photographed by Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau
fig. c Aira Francisca Faúndez Fallau, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60915537

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Cinnagrostis velutina is native: Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Peru Argentina NorthwestArgentina SouthBoliviaChile CentralChile NorthChile SouthPeru
Native distribution of Cinnagrostis velutina, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Bolivia BOL
Chile Central CLC
Chile North CLN
Chile South CLS
Peru PER

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 15 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.

  • Agrostis canescens Griseb.
  • Agrostis nardifolia Griseb.
  • Calamagrostis chilensis (É.Desv.) R.E.Fr.
  • Calamagrostis nardifolia (Griseb.) Hack. ex Stuck.
  • Calamagrostis velutina (Nees & Meyen) Steud.
  • Calamagrostis velutina var. breviculmis Hauman
  • Deyeuxia agrostidea Phil.
  • Deyeuxia chilensis É.Desv.
  • Deyeuxia nardifolia (Griseb.) Phil.
  • Deyeuxia nardifolia var. elatior Türpe
  • Deyeuxia scabriuscula Wedd.
  • Deyeuxia trisetoides Phil.
  • Deyeuxia velutina Nees & Meyen
  • Deyeuxia velutina var. nardifolia (Griseb.) Rúgolo
  • Didymochaeta chilensis (É.Desv.) Steud.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.