Aira brevifolia Pursh

, Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 76 (1813). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317402-2
Publication
Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, a Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America
Collation
1: 76
Date of Publication
Dec 1813
Family as entered in IPNI
Poaceae

Type Information

Collector Team
M.Lewis, W.Clark s.n.
Type Herbaria
lectotype PH-LC 170 170
Distribution Of Types
Weippe Priarie northeast of Kamiah, Idaho County (Idaho, Northwestern U.S.A., Northern America)

Remarks

For the locality, Pursh stated: In the plains of Missouri [River]. M. Lewis; this is an error (fide J. L. Reveal, pers. comm.); the specimen label states: The most common grass through the plains of Columbia & near the Kooskooskee R. Jun: 10th 1806.

Links

Nomenclatural link
Airopsis brevifolia (Pursh) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis [Roemer & Schultes] 2: 578 (1817).
Replaced synonym of
Aira brevifolia F.Dietr., Neu. Nachtr. Vollst. Lex. Gärtn. 1: 133 (1825).
Same citation as
Aira brevifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 76 (1813).