Group:
Monocot
Rank:
species
Kind:
Name of a new Taxon
Herbarium Placement:
Lehmann, lower, A, 19
Authors:
Published In:
Prodromus Plantarum Capensium 24. 1794. (
Prodr. Pl. Cap.)
Annotation:
GrassBase (accessed 2016) treats this as a combination based on
Panicum alopecuroides L., but there is no connection to
Panicum alopecuroides L. (1753). In fact Linnaeaus changed his concept of
Panicum alopecuroides in the Mantissa (1771) to a plant with plumose bristles (See Chase, 1921, p. 222) and this is presumably the basis of Thunberg's plumose bristled
Cenchrus alopecuroides. This blocks the use of "alopecuroides" in
Cenchrus for the plant long known as
Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.
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Type-Protologue
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Locality:
from the preface to the Prodromus: "Promontorio Bonae Spei Africes..."
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Collector and Number:
from the preface to the Prodromus: "collegit Carol. Pet. Thunberg"
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Note:
no material cited under the names.
Higher Taxa:
Taxonomy Browser
Concept:
details
Keywords:
gd,
AFRI