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 30. 1823. (late 1823) (Chlor. Melvill.)
Annotation: preprint of Suppl. to App. Parrey's First Voy. Bot. [p. 288]. 1824

Type-Protologue

Locality: [Canada: Arctic America: Mellville Island, 1820, from title]

Distribution: Canada

Note: Brown cites ~Poa laxa~ Br. in Ross' voy. ed 2. v. 2. p. 192 [error for 142]. Hooker in Scoresby's greenl. p. 410, non. Willdenovii. No coll. nor loc. are cited by Brown.

Type Specimens

• IT: Parry; ;
• IT: Parry Hooker dedit Mart. 1825; ;
• HT: Capt. Parry [R.Br. no. 59]; [1819-1820]; Mellville Island other sheets at BM from 2nd voyage (at Igloolika = arctica, b=abbreviata), and 3rd voyage (by Fisher) are not types

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:  Poa L.

Other names for this basionym:

Poa cenisia var. arctica (R. Br.) Richt.

Projects: China , IPCN , New World Grasses , PAPGI , VPA

Common Names:

• Arctic blugrass (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Keywords: AGF, FCC, FNA, IGS, MC, zpo, IPCN