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

Authors:

Swallen, Jason Richard

Published In: Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 34(9): 308. 1944. (J. Washington Acad. Sci.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Mexico: southern Baja California, on playa, sandy clay, at Llano Dirai, Magdalena Plain, within the limits of the Sonoran Desert

Collector and Number: H. S. Gentry 4192

Distribution: Mexico (Baja California)

Institution(s): HT: US-1865489

Type Specimens

• IT: Howard S. Gentry - 4192 - MO - (BC:MO-1597207/A:1159578). (MO - (BC:MO-1597207/A:1159578))
• HT: H.S. Gentry 4192; 7 Jan 1939; Mexico: Baja California Sur: Magdalena Plain, Llano Dirai, sandy clay, an abundant forage grass over the great flood plain following rain stoage; reported excellent for cattle Reeder, Madroño 30: 308 (1981), reports the actual locality to be: Llanos de Hiray, a few miles south of El Refugio.

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:  Orcuttia Vasey

Other names for this basionym:

Tuctoria fragilis (Swallen) Reeder

Projects: IPCN , New World Grasses

Keywords: AGF, IGS, US.TYPES, gd