Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name with Basionym Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, C, 21

Authors:

Kuntze, Carl (Karl) Ernst (Eduard) Otto

Published In: Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 727. 1891. (5 Nov 1891) (Revis. Gen. Pl.)
Annotation: as "orthacantha"; Greek adjectival epithet. Following Nicolson, Taxon 35: 326 (1986): "Greeks commonly used a two-ending format for compounds with -os (m. and f.) and -on (n.)."

Basionym:

!Desmoncus orthacanthos Mart. 

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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Arecales Bromhead
• family:  !!Arecaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
• genus:  *Atitara Barrère ex Kuntze

Other names with  !Desmoncus orthacanthos Mart.  as basionym:

Atitara orthacanthos (Mart.) Barb. Rodr.

Keywords: KEW
Attribution: The name data was provided by WCSP, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/).