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

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1046. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Annotation: as "virginicum"

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in America

Distribution: USA

Type Specimens

• LT: " 7 virginicum"; USA LT designated by Hitchcock, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 125 (1908); see also Campbell, J. Arnold Arbor 64: 224 (1983).
• ST: van Royen s.n.; ;

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:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Poaceae Barnhart
• genus:  !!Andropogon L.

Other names for this basionym:

**Anatherum virginicum (L.) Desv.

!Anatherum virginicum (L.) Spreng.

Sorghum virginicum (L.) Kuntze

Projects: Costa Rica , Flora of Panama , IPCN , Mesoamericana , New World Grasses , Nicaragua , Panama , PAPGI , VPA

Common Names:

• beard grass (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• broom sedge blue-stem (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• Broomsedge (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
• broom-sedge (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• sedge grass (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• Virginia beard grass (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.

Keywords: AGF, FM, GPR, HWI, IGS, MC, PBRZ, PPPR, FNA