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

Authors:

Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

In Authors:

Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (né Goujaud)
Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

Published In: Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 164. 1815[1816]. (May 1816) (Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.))

Type-Protologue

Locality: Crescit in frigidis Andium Assuensium, juxta pagum Pomallacta et Cerro de Sitzan, alt. 1500 et 1870 hexap., (Regno Quitensi), floret julio

Collector and Number: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.

Distribution: Ecuador

Note: Pomallacta is Pumallacta in Southern Chimborazo

Type Specimens

• HT: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n. [3249 on both US fragms.]; Jul; Ecuador: Chimborazo, Andes Assuensium .. Pomallacta & Cerro de Sitzan: 2700-3360 m

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:  Melica L.

Projects: Bolivia , Ecuador , New World Grasses , PAPGI , Peru , VPA

Keywords: AGF, BOL, CEC, IGS, PERU