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. 1823. (Chlor. Melvill.)
Annotation: as "Fisheri"

Type-Protologue

Locality: [Melville Island, 1820, from title]

Collector and Number: Fischer s.n.

Distribution: Canada

Note: "The specific name is that of Mr. Fisher, whose herbarium contained the most complete series of specimens of this grass"

Type Specimens

• LT: «Melville Island, 1820, Fisher» LT "Tzvelev, Probatova, hic designatus; J. Cayouette, 1993, in herb."

  • Lectotype designated by:  Tzvelev, N. N. & N. S. Probatova. 2019. Zlaki Rossii / Grasses of Russia. 364. In N. N. Tzvelev & N. S. Probatova Zlaki Rossii / Grasses of Russia. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow.

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:  Dupontia R. Br.

Other names for this basionym:

Graphephorum fisheri (R. Br.) A. Gray

Melica fischeri (R. Br.) Spreng.

Projects: IPCN , New World Grasses , PAPGI , VPA

Keywords: AGF, FM, FNA, IGS, IPCN