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

Authors:

Torrey, John

In Authors:

Hooker, William Jackson

Published In: Flora Boreali-Americana (Hooker) 2: 252, pl. 233. 1840. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: North America: Alpine districts of the Rocky Mts.

Collector and Number: Drummond

Note: Torr. Mnt. also cited several syntypes

Type Specimens

• IT: Drummond s.n.; no date;
• LT: T. Drummond 187; s.d.; USA: Rocky Mountains LT: by whom?

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:  Festuca L.

Other names for this basionym:

Festuca altaica subsp. scabrella (Torr.) Hultén

Festuca altaica var. scabrella (Torr.) Breitung

Projects: China , New World Grasses , VPA

Common Names:

• rough fescue (English, Cabinda)
  • Canada Weed Committee. 1969. Comm. bot. nam. weeds Canada 1–67.
• Rough fescue (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, IGS, US.TYPES, FNA