Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part F)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
text
2007
Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
London
Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types
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Festuca ovina
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
1
: 73. 1753
.
"Habitat in Alpibus Lapponicae, Helvetiae, Scotiae." RCN: 614.
Lectotype
(
Kerguelen
in
Lejeunia
, n.s., 75: 150. 1975): Herb. Linn. No. 92.1; Lapland
Herb. No. 55 (
LINN
;
iso-
LAPP
)
.
Generitype
of
Festuca
Linnaeus
(vide Hitchcock,
Prop. Brit. Bot.
: 120. 1929).
Current name:
Festuca ovina
L.
(
Poaceae
).
Note:
A detailed account of the original elements is given by Jarvis & al. (in
Watsonia
16: 300. 1987) who also illustrated the type (their pl. 2A), though their choice is pre-dated by that of
Kerguelen
(1975)
.