Group: Moss Rank: subspecies Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, upper, cases, 1

Authors:

Ehrhart, Jakob Friedrich

Published In: Hannoverisches Magazin 18(15): 235. 1780. (Hannover. Mag.)
Annotation: Validated by reference to Sphagnum palustre L. var. β L., Sp. Pl. 1106 (1753); see Chater & Brummitt in Taxon 15: 95–106 (1966) for the correct assignment of rank.

Type-Protologue

Locality: ["Vidi in ericetis udis prope Charlton in Cantio, & valde copiose in ericetis uliginosis inter Weft-Wickham & Addington prope Croydon in Surrejensi Comitatu." fide Dillenius 1741: 244]

Type Specimens

• LT: Dillenii Historia Muscorum, Herb. fol. 82, specimen no. 2 (Sphagnum palustre molle deflexum, squamis capillaceis), excl. var. B. fluitans.

  • Lectotype designated by:  Flatberg, K. I. 1983. Typification of Spahgnum capillifolium (Ehrh.) Hedw. J. Bryol. 12: 505–506.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• subkingdom:  Bryobiotina Trevis.
• division:  Bryophyta Schimp.
• subdivision:  Sphagnophytina Doweld
• class:  Sphagnopsida Schimp.
• order:  Sphagnales Limpr.
• family:  Sphagnaceae Dumort.
• genus:  Sphagnum L.
• species:  !Sphagnum palustre L.

Other names for this basionym:

Sphagnum acutifolium var. capillifolium (Ehrh.) Funck

!Sphagnum capillifolium (Ehrh.) Hedw.

Keywords: MOSS