Group: Moss Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 5

Authors:

Hedwig, Johann

Published In: Species Muscorum Frondosorum 92, pl. 19: f. 2: b. 1801. (Sp. Musc. Frond.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in alpibus Scoticis, Scandinavicis, Tyrolensibus, Helveticis, in Sudetibus, Bructero Hercyniae etc. Vere sporangio maturat.

Type Specimens

• LT: The central specimen in the upper row with four mature capsules on the sheet labelled 'Polytrichum alpinum e Bruct'

  • Lectotype designated by:  Ochyra, R., R. I. Lewis Smith & H. Bednarek-Ochyra. 2008. Ill. Moss Fl. Antarctica 94. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• subkingdom:  Bryobiotina Trevis.
• division:  Bryophyta Schimp.
• subdivision:  Bryophytina Engl.
• class:  Polytrichopsida Doweld
• order:  Polytrichales Cavers
• family:  Polytrichaceae Schwägr.
• genus:  Polytrichum Hedw.

Other names for this basionym:

Pogonatum alpinum (Hedw.) Röhl.

!Polytrichastrum alpinum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm.

Projects: IPCN

Keywords: 02, 11, MOSS