Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, D, 50

Authors:

Luer, Carlyle (Carl) August
Escobar Restrepo, Rodrigo

Published In: Harvard Papers in Botany 21(1): 65, fig. 10. 2016. (Harvard Pap. Bot.)
Nomenclature Reason: nom. illeg. (an effective homonym) according to ICN Art. 53.2; though spelled slightly differently (incorrectly?), the epithet is otherwise identical (derived from the same Latin word, i.e., with the same meaning ascribed to it) as that of the prior Stelis cracens Luer & Hirtz (2013)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Antioquia: Concepción, between Barbosa and Concepción, 2380 m, 12 April 1998

Collector and Number: C. Luer, J. Luer & R. Escobar 13173

Distribution: Colombia: Antioquia

Institution(s): HT: MO

Note: Etymology: From the Latin crascens, "slender, graceful", referring to qualitites of the plant.

Type Specimens

• HT: Carl A. Luer - 13173 - MO. (MO)

New Name:

Stelis elegantissima J.M. Murillo, Rom. Cec. & Karremans 

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Asparagales Link
• family:  !!Orchidaceae Juss.
• genus:  !!Stelis Sw.

Projects: VPA