Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19

Authors:

Scribner, Frank Lamson
Tweedy, Frank

Published In: Botanical Gazette 11: 170. 1886. (Bot. Gaz.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA: [Wyoming] Yellostone Park, Mirror Lake Plateau, 8800 ft, meadows, [1884-85]

Collector and Number: Tweedy s.n.

Distribution: USA (Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)

Type Specimens

• HT: F. Tweedy; 1884-1885; USA: Yellowstone Park, Mirror Lake Plateau, 8800 ft, meadows A specimen with this data seems to be absent from PH, and US, and is not reported from GH; perhaps incorrectly cited by the authors (rjs, 2012)

  • Annotation: possibly lost, destroyed in Scribner herbarium fir
• LT: Frank Tweedy 591; Aug 1885; Yellowstone Park, East Fork, 9000 ft, meadows Tweedy 591 [US] designated as type by Chase & Niles, Index to Grass Species vol. 1, p. 128 (1962); US-996651 annotated as holotype by W.J. Crins, 1990: This is apparently original material seen by Scribn
• OM: Hall & Harbour "Alopecurus pratensis var. alpestris" sensu Thurber; "A. alpinus" sensu Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colo. 256, and Coulter, Manual. p. 406.

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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  Alopecurus L.

Other names for this basionym:

Alopecurus alpinus var. occidentalis (Scribn. & Tweedy) B. Boivin

Projects: New World Grasses

Keywords: AGF, IGS, US.TYPES, FNA