Festuca elatior information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Festuca elatior L.

Synonym of Festuca arundinacea Schreb.

Genus: Festuca
Family: Poaceae alt. Gramineae
Nomen number: 16650
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:75. 1753, nom. utique rej.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:

a rejected name (nomen utique rejiciendum) under ICBN Art. 56 & App. V that is unavailable for use
F. elatior sensu lectotype = F. arundinacea Schreb.
non Festuca elatior auct. Amer. (= F. pratensis Huds.)
review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

Name verified on: 15-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-Jan-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. (previously associated with 116 accessions)

References:

Brummitt, R. K. 1994. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 40. Taxon 43:115. [rejection proposal recommended].
Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) 399.
Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [cited as F. elatior L., p.p].
Reveal, J. L. et al. 1991. (996) Proposal to reject Festuca elatior L. with comments on the typification of F. pratensis and F. arundinacea (Poaceae). Taxon 40:135–136.

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Check other databases for Festuca elatior L.:

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16650 (22 November 2009)

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