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 31. 1823. (late 1823) (Chlor. Melvill.)
Annotation: nom. illeg.

Type-Protologue

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

Distribution: Arctic America

Note: no coll., nor loc. cited

Type Specimens

• ST: Parry s.n.; ; "Name was written by Brown" Herb.Mertens
• LT: Edwards; 1819-1820; [Canada, NWT] Melville Island

Earlier:

!Festuca brevifolia Muhl. 

New Name:

Festuca brachyphylla Schult. & Schult. f. 

*Festuca ovina var. borealis Lange 

Nomenclaturally Correct Name:

Festuca ovina var. brevifolia S. Watson 

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.

Projects: China , New World Grasses , VPA

Keywords: AGF, FCC, IGS, US.TYPES, VW