LT:
A. Fendler Plantae Novo-Mexicanae no. 932; 1847; USA: New Mexico (plant no. 1, of 4)
Shaw (1982) says Fendler's notes indicate 932 was collected between 22 Apr and 16 Jun, 1847, Santa Fe Cr. valley, side of mountain between rocks, also foot of mts and steep rocky banks. Plants numbered 1, 2, & 3 on the NY 380762 (LT = no. 1) were assocated with Bigelow & Parry collections in notes by Munro & Torrey, but were considered part of the 932 gathering of Fendler by Marsh (1952), while no. 4 appeared different to him. Marsh believed that Fendler 932 was a mixture of plants. At GH there is a packet with material from Bigelow "Organ Mts." annotated by Monro as "Schlerochloa californica" (southern NM) on GH00023639 along with a specimen of Fendler 932 from northern New Mexico (= pl. 3 NY ILT). Marsh selected his lectotype to reflect what he considered to be the northern plants, and suggested the southern form might represent another species. However, D.D. Keck annotation dismissed this interpretation, and considered all the plants to be of the same taxon. While P. fendleriaiana subsp. fendleriana is variable, there is a continuum of variation south to north in New Mexico, and RJS also accepted all as part of the same subspecies. One of the specimens indicated as no. 4 on the 2nd NY sheet is staminate, and considering no other staminate plants have been gathered from near Santa Fe, this indicates 932 is heterogenous in origin as Marsh suspected. The LT is pistillate.
The PH specimen with a Fendler 932 ticket is Poa secunda, see T.A. Williams (1899, USDA Div. Agrost. Circ. 10), and it was evidently not collected by Fendler nor in NM.
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Annotation: Fendler 932 p.p. max (excl. PH00020093)
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Lectotype designated by:
Marsh, V. L. 1952. A taxonomic revision of the genus Poa of the United States and southern Canada, part 1. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 47: p 231, 233.