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

Authors:

Drummond, Thomas

Published In: Musci Americani; or, Specimens of the Mosses Collected in British North America no. 127. 1828. (Musci Amer., Brit. N. Amer.)
Annotation: as 'fragile'
Type Specimens

• LT: '127 Drummond. Musci Am. Is certainly a Tortula 'Didymodon fragile' Hook. Tortula fragilis Wils. Mss. R. Mounts. Alpine Lakes - fruits very rare'

  • Lectotype designated by:  Ochyra, R., R. I. Lewis Smith & H. Bednarek-Ochyra. 2008. Ill. Moss Fl. Antarctica 323. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

New Name:

Tortula drummondii Mitt. 

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:  Dicranidae Doweld
• order:  Pottiales M. Fleisch.
• family:  !!Pottiaceae Hampe
• genus:  Didymodon Hedw.

Other names for this basionym:

*Barbula fragilis (Drumm.) Schimp.

Mollia fragilis (Drumm.) Lindb.

!Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr.

Tortella tortuosa subsp. fragilis (Drumm.) J.J. Amann

*Tortula fragilis (Drumm.) C. Hartm.

Trichostomum fragile (Drumm.) Müll. Hal.

Keywords: MOSS