Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Poa nemoralis Linnaeus 1753

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

Description

Agrostis alba Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 63. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae nemoribus." RCN: 542.

Lectotype (Widén, Fl. Fennica 5: 101. 1971): Herb. A. van Royen No. 913.62-84 (L).

Current name: Poa nemoralis L. (Poaceae).

Note: Hitchcock (in Bot. Gaz. 38: 141. 1904) noted that Linnaeus had confused two species, A. stolonifera L. and A. alba L. Hitchcock (in U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bull. 68: 25. 1905) considered what is evidently 84.23 (LINN) as the type, but this is a collection from Hudson which was received by Linnaeus long after 1753. Widén (in Bot. Not. 120: 508. 1967) regarded A. alba as a nomen ambiguum, but subsequently resolved the problem by typifying the name using van Royen material, allowing it to fall into the synonymy of Poa nemoralis L.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 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 270, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
L
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Poa
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
913.62-84
Order
Cyperales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
nemoralis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Poa nemoralis Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007