Group: Moss Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 72

Authors:

Hedwig, Johann

Published In: Species Muscorum Frondosorum 228. 1801. (Sp. Musc. Frond.)
Type Specimens

• LT: "Leskea sericea Hedw. St. Cr. V. 4 p. 431. 17. Hypnum sericeum Linn."

  • Lectotype designated by:  Hofmann, H. 1998. A monograph of the genus Homalothecium (Brachytheciaceae, Musci). Lindbergia 23: 139.

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 Ritgen
• subclass:  Bryidae Engl.
• superorder:  Hypnanae W.R. Buck, C.J. Cox, A.J. Shaw & Goffinet
• order:  Hypnales W.R. Buck & Vitt
• family:  Leskeaceae Schimp.
• genus:  Leskea Hedw.

Other names for this basionym:

Burnettia sericea (Hedw.) Grout

Camptothecium sericeum (Hedw.) Kindb.

!Homalothecium sericeum (Hedw.) Schimp.

Hypnum sericeum (Hedw.) With.

Isothecium sericeum (Hedw.) Spruce

Neckera sericea (Hedw.) Grindel

Pleuropus sericeus (Hedw.) Dixon

Keywords: FNA, MOSS