Sep 14, 2008 11:28
15 yrs ago
Spanish term

poacia

Spanish to English Science Archaeology description of landscape
text from Spain, describing the probable landscape of an archaeological site - "it would have been full of fields of..." - here's the context and TIA!
El paisaje inmediato al yacimiento estaría dominado por una vegetación con prados estacionales de *poacias* y otros herbáceos y diseminados encinas/garric, pinos, lledoner, cupressàcies, margalló, etc

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Rachel Fell Sep 14, 2008:
Is the site in Spain and near the coast (?) as I note that saltgrass, Distichlis_spicata, is native to the Americas (although naturalised elsewhere - you did not give a date) and favours coastal areas - at best, it doesn't seem like a meadow species...

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saltgrass

"...géneros de poacias, conocidas como grama salada (Distichlis spicata; y Muhlenbergia. asperifolia)..."
PDF! http://www.uta.cl/masma/yuta/pdf/Santoro_etal_Topic.pdf

Wikipedia says that the common English name for "Distichlis spicata" is saltgrass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distichlis_spicata
...which corresponds to "grama salada" given in the first reference above.



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agree María T. Vargas
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grasses

or poss. "Poaceae species", but I think grasses is more likely


Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Plants of this family are usually called grasses. There are about 600 genera and between 9,000–10,000 species of grasses (Kew Index of World Grass Species). Plant communities dominated by Poaceae are called grasslands; it is estimated that grasslands comprise 20% of the vegetation cover of the earth. This family is the most important of all plant families to human economies: it includes the staple food grains grown around the world, lawn and forage grasses, and bamboo, widely used for construction throughout east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The term "grass" is also applied to many grass-like plants not in the Poaceae, leading to plants of the Poaceae often being called "true grasses".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae
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