Cinnagrostis vicunarum(Wedd.) P.M.Peterson, Soreng, Romasch. & Barberá

WFO wfo-1000031404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. a Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 195369055
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. b Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191983939
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. c Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183989792
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Humber Alberto
fig. d Humber Alberto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183989933
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Dan MacNeal
fig. e Dan MacNeal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26991539
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Dan MacNeal
fig. f Dan MacNeal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26881898
Cinnagrostis vicunarum, photographed by Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle
fig. g Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194017779

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Cinnagrostis vicunarum is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Chile North, Peru Argentina NorthwestBoliviaChile NorthPeru
Native distribution of Cinnagrostis vicunarum, 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
Bolivia BOL
Chile North CLN
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.

  • Calamagrostis pentapogonodes Kuntze
  • Calamagrostis pulvinata Hack.
  • Calamagrostis spiciformis var. acutifolia Hack.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum (Wedd.) Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. abscondita Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. elatior Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. humilior Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. major Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. setulosa Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. tenuifolia Pilg.
  • Calamagrostis vicunarum var. tenuior Pilg.
  • Deyeuxia pulvinata (Hack.) Türpe
  • Deyeuxia vicunarum Wedd.
  • Deyeuxia vicunarum var. major Wedd.
  • Deyeuxia vicunarum var. tenuifolia Wedd.

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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