Group: Moss Rank: section Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 18

Authors:

Mitten, William

Published In: Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 12: 130, 135. 1869. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)
Type Specimens

• LT: Encalypta ligulata Spruce. [≡Scopelophila ligulata (Spruce) Spruce]

  • Annotation: see discussion following W. cataractae
  • Lectotype designated by:  Wijk, R. van der, W. D. Margadant & P. A. Florschütz. 1967. Index Muscorum. 4 (P--S). Regnum Veg. 48: 376.
• LT: Weissia agoyanensis Mitt.

  • Annotation: superfluous typification
  • Lectotype designated by:  Zander, R. H. 1967. The New World distribution of Scopelophila (=Merceya). Bryologist 70: 406.

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

• subkingdom:  Bryobiotina Trevis.
• division:  Bryophyta Schimp.
• subdivision:  Bryophytina Engl.
• class:  Bryopsida McClatchie
• subclass:  Dicranidae Doweld
• order:  Pottiales M. Fleisch.
• family:  !!Pottiaceae Hampe
• genus:  Weissia Hedw.

Other names for this basionym:

Scopelophila (Mitt.) Lindb.

Keywords: MOSS