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

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 1045. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Annotation: ICN-Melbourne: 62.2 Ex. 4: "Irrespective of the fact that the generic names Andropogon and Oplopanax were originally treated as neuter by their authors, they are masculine."
Nomenclature Reason: nom. et typ. cons., see Taxon 44: 611-612 (1995)

Type Specimens

• CT: Andropogon distachyos L. LT designated by Green, International Botanical Congress Cambridge (England), 1930. Nomenclature. Proposals by British Botanists: 155-195 (1929); see also Stapf,. Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 209-210 (1919); Clayton & Renvoize, Fl. Trop. E. Afr. Gramineae 770 (1982); Jarvis, Taxon 41: 556 (1992).

  • Lectotype designated by:  Hitchcock, A. S. & M. L. Green. 1929. Standard species of Linnaean genera of Phanerogamae (1753-1754). 193, by Green. In Nom. Prop. Brit. Bot.. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
• LT: Andropogon virginicus L. Lectotypification ineffective.

  • Lectotype designated by:  Hitchcock, A. S. 1920. The genera of grasses of the United States. U.S.D.A. Bull. (1915-23) 772: 260.
  • Lectotype designated by:  Hitchcock, A. S. 1918. Generic types with special reference to the grasses of the United States. Amer. J. Bot. 5: 251.

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

Projects: Antioquia , Bolivia , China , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Flora of Panama , IPCN , Madagascar , Madidi Checklist , Mesoamericana , Missouri , New World Grasses , Nicaragua , Pakistan , Panama , PAPGI , Peru , SNR , VPA

Common Names:

• Beardgrass (English, United States)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1951. Man. Grasses U.S. (ed. 2) 1–1051. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
• blue-stem (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• xu mang cao shu
  • No References available

Keywords: AFRI, AGF, ASIA, BOL, CEC, FCC, MC, PAK, PBRZ, FNA