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)
• OM: ; ; Melville Island (LE-TRIN- 1876.01) sent from England by Prescott in 1929 as Dupontia fisheri, but actually Deschamspia brevifolia
• ST: s. n.; ; (LE/A:GST) Trinius scrips.
• ST: Edwards s.n.; 1820; (BM; IST: US-3168553)

New Name:

!Aira arctica Spreng. 

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• 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