Group: Monocot Rank: genus Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, A, 19

Authors:

Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von

Published In: Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Botanici Berolinensis, . . . 1036. 1809. (Enum. Pl.)

Type-Protologue

Note: Type not designated in the protologue. Recognizes two species: Penicillaria spicata (L.) Willd. and Penicillaria ciliata Willd.

Type Specimens

• LT: Penicillaria spicata (L.) Willd. LT designated by Chase, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 22: 211 (1921)

  • Lectotype designated by:  Chase, A. 1921. The North American species of Pennisetum. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 22(4): 211.

Nomenclaturally Correct Name:

Pennisetum Rich. 

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

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Poaceae Barnhart

Other names for this basionym:

Cenchrus sect. Penicillaria (Willd.) M.B. Crespo, M.Á. Alonso, Mart.-Azorín & L. Sáez

*Pennisetum sect. Penicillaria (Willd.) Benth. & Hook. f.

**Pennisetum sect. Penicillaria (Willd.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb.

*Pennisetum sect. Penicilleria (Willd.) Steud.

Projects: New World Grasses

Keywords: agf, PBRZ, AFRI