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

Authors:

Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

In Authors:

Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (né Goujaud)
Kunth, Karl (Carl) Sigismund

Published In: Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 131. 1815[1816]. (29 Jan 1816) (Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.))
Annotation: as "Podosaemum" alpestre

Type-Protologue

Locality: Crescit in summo monte Silla de Caracas, alt. 1350 hexap. Floret Januario

Collector and Number: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.

Distribution: Venezuela (Federal District)

Type Specimens

• HT: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.; Jan; Venezuela: Silla de Caracas

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:  !Podosemum Desv.

Other names for this basionym:

**Muhlenbergia alpestris (Kunth) Kunth

!Muhlenbergia alpestris (Kunth) Trin.

Polypogon alpestris (Kunth) Spreng.

Trichochloa alpestris (Kunth) Roem. & Schult.

Triniochloa alpestris (Kunth) Pittier

Projects: New World Grasses

Keywords: IGS, AGF