- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:9426-2
- Species Name
- Alnus incana (L.) Moench, Methodus (Moench) 424 (1794).
- Publication
- Geological Survey of California. J. D. Whitney, State Geologist. Botany. Cambridge, MA
- Collation
- 2: 81
- Date of Publication
- Jul-Dec 1880
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Betulaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- S. Watson 1090
- Locality
- Parley’s Park, alt. 7000 ft [Protologue: From Oregon to the Saskatchewan and southward in the mountains to the southern Sierra Nevada and New Mexico ; frequent on the eastern slope of the Sierra, and reported by Muir as forming dense thickets along the branches of the San Joaquin, King's and Kern Rivers at an altitude of 6,000 to 7,000 feet.]
- Collection Date
- Jun 1869
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype GH
- Chosen By
- Furlow Rhodora 81(826): 176. 1979 [13 Apr 1979]
- Distribution Of Types
- Utah (Southwestern U.S.A., Northern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. illeg. later homonym non Wahlenb. (1812).