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Bromus lithobius
Bromus lithobius is a species of brome grass known by the common name Chilean brome in English. It is native to Chile and Argentina, but is introduced in Australia and New Zealand. It was described as Bromus lithobius by Carl Bernhard von Trinius in 1835.
It is one of several species in the Bromus catharticus complex within the Bromus section Ceratochloa, all of which are hexaploids with the chromosome count 2n=42.
Bromus lithobius is native to Chile and Argentina, but introduced and naturalised in New Zealand and Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bromus lithobius by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
