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Poa alpina Linnaeus 1753

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Poa alpina Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 67. 1753.

"Habitat in alpibus Lapponicis, Helveticis." RCN: 568.

Lectotype (Soreng in Cafferty & al. in Taxon 49: 254. 2000): Herb. Linn. No. 87.2 (LINN).

Current name: Poa alpina L. (Poaceae).

Note: Although Kerguélen (in Lejeunia, n.s., 75: 235. 1975) stated "Type:...LINN", this is not accepted as a formal typification, for the reasons explained by Cafferty & al. (in Taxon 49: 240. 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), pp. 718-782 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 751, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LINN
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Poa
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
87.2
Order
Poales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
alpina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Poa alpina Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007