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

Authors:

Brown, Robert

Published In: Chloris Melvilliana a list of plants collected in Melville Island (latitude 74-75 N., longitude 110-112 W.) in the year 1820; by the officers of the voyage of discovery under the orders of Captain Parry, with characters and descriptions of the new genera and species 33–34. 1823. (late 1823) (Chlor. Melvill.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: [Melville Island, 1820, from title]

Distribution: Canada

Note: No collections or locations mentioned, although a var. Beta "Perianthia mutica" is mentioned

Type Specimens

• IT: Joseph D. Hooker - 66 - MO - (BC:MO-992684/A:2960895). (MO - (BC:MO-992684/A:2960895))
• OM: ; ; Melville Island ST: LE sent from England by Prescott in 1929 as Dupontia fisheri, but actually Deschamspia brevifolia
• LT: «Deschampsia brevifolia. Melville Island, [1820] Parry» ST: BM, GH, LE («In Melville Island attulit…; Ex Angliae am. Prescott, 1829»), MO, S, US

  • Lectotype designated by:  Tzvelev, N. N. & N. S. Probatova. 2019. Zlaki Rossii / Grasses of Russia. 194. In N. N. Tzvelev & N. S. Probatova Zlaki Rossii / Grasses of Russia. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.
• ST: s. n.; ; Trinius scrips.
• ST: Edwards s.n.; 1820;

New Name:

!Aira arctica Spreng. 

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:  Deschampsia P. Beauv.

Other names for this basionym:

*Aira caespitosa var. brevifolia (R. Br.) Trautv.

**Deschampsia caespitosa subsp. brevifolia (R. Br.) Tzvelev

Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. brevifolia (R. Br.) Tzvelev

Projects: IPCN , New World Grasses , VPA

Keywords: AGF, FM, FNA, IGS, MC, US.TYPES, IPCN