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

Authors:

Merrill, Elmer Drew
Burtt Davy, Joseph

Published In: University of California Publications in Botany 1(1): 62–63. 1902. (Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.)
Annotation: Stipa occidentalis had 2 syntypes, M&B-D selected the Bolander syntype as the type of their var. montana, and explicitly identified the Watson 1296 as the type of the species. However Bolander 5038 was also a syntype of Stipa stricta var. sparsiflora Vasey
Nomenclature Reason: nom. illeg. superfl.

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA: California: Yosemite Trail

Collector and Number: Bolander 5038

Distribution: USA (California)

Type Specimens

• IT: H.N. Bolander 5038; 20 Aug 1866; USA: California: Yosemite Trail, on loose, disintegrated granite Also type of (1) ~Stipa occidentalis~ Thurber ex Watson in King and (2) ~Stipa stricta~ var. ~sparsiflora~ Vasey

Nomenclaturally Correct Name:

!Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex 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:  Stipa L.
• species:  !Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson

Projects: New World Grasses , VPA

Keywords: AGF, FNA, IGS, US.TYPES, FM