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

Authors:

Pursh, Frederick Traugott

Published In: Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, . . . 1: 81. 1814[1813]. (Dec 1813) (Fl. Amer. Sept.)
Annotation: Although Pursh cited "Poa amabilis Walter" as a synonym, Walter's description was a misapplication of Poa amabilis L., and not intended as a new taxon name, and is thus invalid. Pursh, unlike Muhlenberg (Sep 1813), provided a diagnosis, and is thus Poa spectabilis Pursh is a legitimate name in its own right, that only needed typification different from that of Muhlenberg's Poa refracta, to fix its application.

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA: New York to Carolina. In dry barren sand-fields; July

Distribution: USA: (New York to Carolina)

Type Specimens

• LT: [John] Clayton 580

  • Annotation: not a type
  • Lectotype designated by:  Weakley, A. S., B. A. Sorrie, R. J. LeBlond, Poindexter, A. J. Floden, E. E. Schilling, A. R. Franck & J. C. Kees. 2018. New combinations, rank changes, and nomenclatural and taxonomic comments in the vascular flora of the southeastern United States. IV. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 12(2): 476, by A. Franck.
• ILT:

  • Annotation: fragm. ex BM
• HT:

  • Annotation: [stored under Poa pectinacea Michx. at K]

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:  Poa L.

Other names for this basionym:

Eragrostis pectinacea var. spectabilis (Pursh) A. Gray

Eragrostis spectabilis (Pursh) Steud.

Erochloe spectabilis (Pursh) Raf. ex B.D. Jacks.

Megastachya spectabilis (Pursh) Roem. & Schult.

Poa hirsuta var. spectabilis (Pursh) Torr.

Projects: New World Grasses , VPA

Keywords: AGF, FNA, IGS, FM