A key to the North American genera of Stipeae (Poaceae, Pooideae) with descriptions and taxonomic names for species of Eriocoma, Neotrinia, Oloptum, and five new genera: Barkworthia, x Eriosella, Pseudoeriocoma, Ptilagrostiella, and Thorneochloa
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Peterson, Paul M.
Department of Botany MRC- 166, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
peterson@si.edu
Author
Romaschenko, Konstantin
Department of Botany MRC- 166, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
Author
Soreng, Robert J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8358-4915
Department of Botany MRC- 166, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA
Author
Reyna, Jesus Valdes
Departamento de Botanica, Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo, C. P. 25315, Mexico
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Barkworthia stillmanii (Bol.) Romasch., P.M.Peterson & Soreng, comb. nov.
Stipa stillmanii
Bol., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4: 169. 1872 [Basionym] ≡
Achnatherum stillmanii
(Bol.) Barkworth, Phytologia 74(1): 14. 1993 - Type: USA, California, Sierra Nevada, Blue
Canon
, Jul 1870,
H.N. Bolander
,
M.D. Kellogg & co. s.n.
(holotype: NY-00431576 [image!]; isotypes: GH-00017890 [image!], K-000873398 [image!], MO-3055652!, MO-3055653!, MO-3055654!, NDG-07159 [image!], US-556922!). Fig.
1A-F
.
Distribution and habitat.
Barkworthia stillmanii
is distributed in scattered locations in northern California (Butte, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, and Yuba Counties) associated with yellow pine and red fir forests; 10-1500 m (
Barkworth 2007
;
Calflora 2018
).
Comments
.
In a molecular-derived phylogeny of the
Stipeae
using 10 DNA markers
Barkworthia stillmanii
is sister to a well-supported
Piptatherum
clade, which is strictly Old World in distribution, and has cauducous awns, and dark glossy lemmas in fruit (
Romaschenko et al. 2012
).
Figure 1.
Barkworthia stillmanii
:
A
habit
B
ligule
C
panicle
D
glumes
E
floret
F
floret (close up).
Eriocoma hymenoides
:
G
culm and panicle
H
panicle branch
I
glumes
J
floret
K
lemma awn
L
floret base (callus).