Group: Moss Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 17A

Authors:

Mitten, William

Published In: Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 8: 29. 1865[1864]. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)

Type-Protologue

Locality: In a shaded place by the side of a rivulet, Rocky Mountains

Collector and Number: Drummond [s.n.]

Type Specimens

• LT: "Nr. 435 Encalypta streptocarpa [?]ar. side of a rivulet Rocky Mountains stem short fruit stalks long in proportion growing in a shady place Drummond."

  • Second-step lectotype designated by:  Horton, D. G. 1983. A revision of the Encalyptaceae (Musci), with particular reference to the North American taxa. Part II. J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 54: 360, 361.
  • Lectotype designated by:  Horton, D. G. 1978. Bryobrittonia longipes, an earlier name for B. pellucida (Encalyptaceae, Musci). Brittonia 30: 19 [as 'holotype'].

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:  Funariidae Ochyra
• order:  Encalyptales Dixon
• family:  Encalyptaceae Schimp.
• genus:  Encalypta Hedw.

Other names for this basionym:

!Bryobrittonia longipes (Mitt.) D.G. Horton

Keywords: 11, MOSS