Genus Leymus (Noun)
Meaning
Genus that in some classifications overlaps the genus Elymus.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Genus Leymus consists of wildrye species in the family Poaceae and includes various types found in cold temperate and mountain regions.
- Many sources recognize a few species from Leymus being reclassified into genus Elymus due to recent botanical developments.
- In North America Leymus is widely distributed particularly in coastal regions because some species which also belongs to this genus act as important indicators for ocean climate effects.
- Further reevaluations could separate these perennial grasses even further to bring together sister genera more strongly linked through Genus Leymus with many uncertain genetic factors with related genera in studies like Pascopyrum or Hordeum but due to those possible relation findings will place under related family analysis.
- Those grass species which fit under Leymus classification sometimes will actually and be put under Genus Elymus depending upon source validity.