- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321636-2
- Species Name
- Equisetum hyemale L., Sp. Pl. 2: 1062 (1753).
- Publication
- Phytologist; a Popular Botanical Miscellany. London
- Collation
- 1(16): 305
- Date of Publication
- Sep 1842
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Equisetaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- North of Ireland, more particularly in the counties Derry and Antrim
- Type Remarks
- originally discovered in the year 1833, by Mr. Mackay
Nomenclatural Notes
as 'var. Mackaii'
Remarks
Eponymy: Named after the original discoverer, Mr. J. T. Mackay, of Dublin.