Three new grass records for Madagascar Author Vorontsova, Maria S. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW 9 3 AB, United Kingdom m.vorontsova@kew.org Author Nanjarisoa, Olinirina Prisca Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre, II J 131 B, Ambodivoanjo Ivandry, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar. Author Besnard, Guillaume Université de Toulouse, ENFA, UMR 5174 EDB (Laboratoire Evolution & Diversité Biologique), route de Narbonne 118, 31062 Toulouse, France and CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, UMR 5174 EDB, 31062 Toulouse, France. text Candollea 2014 2014-07-01 69 1 85 87 journal article 3379 10.15553/c2014v691a10 777b3eba-ef2c-4947-9763-77d66526fd6d 2235-3658 5715359 Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. , Fl. Bad. 1: 8. 1805 . ≡ Festuca myuros L. , Sp. Pl.: 74 1753. Lectotypus (designated by STACE & JARVIS, 1985 ): COUNTRY UNKNOWN: Habitat in Anglia , Italia. Herb. A. van Royen No. 912.356-218 ( L ). Observations. – Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel. , the rat’s tail fescue, is almost certainly a European native now naturalised worldwide and invasive particularly in Mediterranean ecosystems, especially in the U. S. A. (California and Oregon) and in Australia (HOWARD, 2006). The Paris herbarium (P) holds a single collection of V. myuros and numerous accessions of V. bromoides (L.) Gray from Réunion. No collections of Vulpia C. C. Gmel. have previously been recorded from Madagascar. The lack of collections for the last 50 years may indicate lack of spread although the low collection rates for Poaceae in general make this doubtful. The specimen was originally recorded as Aristida sp. Specimen examined. – MADAGASCAR . Prov. Antananarivo : route d’Antsirabe , VII.1964 , Morat 1119 ( P [ P02616909 ]!) .