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Taxon: Festuca elatior auct. Amer.

Synonym of Festuca pratensis Huds.

Genus: Festuca
Family: Poaceae alt. Gramineae
Nomen number: 401066
Comments:Name verified on: 15-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 08-Jan-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. (previously associated with 17 accessions)

References:

  • Brummitt, R. K. 1994. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 40. Taxon 43:115. [rejection proposal recommended].
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • 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 40:135–137.
More:

Check other databases for Festuca elatior auct. Amer.:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?401066 (22 November 2009)

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