- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:181681-2
- Publication
- Systema Naturae ...Editio decima, reformata...
- Collation
- 2: 870
- Date of Publication
- 7 Jun 1759
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Poaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- P.Browne s.n.
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype LINN
- Distribution Of Types
- Jamaica (Caribbean, Southern America)
Remarks
The LT. information is from Renvoize, Gra. Bolivia 424. 1998. There has been some discussion regarding whether the epithet 'colonum' is a noun or an adjective. Nicolson (in Taxon 35: 324. 1986) discusses the gender of the epithet 'colonum' as, in some detail, does Ward (in Sida 21: 2171-2183. 2005). The latter concludes that the word, from the Latin 'colonus' is a noun (in the accusative singular) meaning 'farm-worker' or 'farmer'. Plukenet (in Phytographia, 1692) used the name 'Pestis Coloni' or 'plague of the farmer'. The contrary view, that the epithet is an adjective meaning 'fit to be tilled', is argued by Michael (in Taxon 58: 1366-1368. 2009). In IPNI the epithet is treated as a noun as this fits more closely with Plukenet's original descriptive term.
Links
- Basionym of
- Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Honda, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 122 (1923).
- Basionym of
- Oplismenus colonum (L.) Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] 1: 108 (4to), 89 (fol.) (1816).
- Basionym of
- Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Japan. (Makino & Nemoto) 1470 (1925).
- Basionym of
- Milium colonum (L.) Moench, Methodus (Moench) 202 (1794).
- Basionym of
- Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum (L.) Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Sci. Algérie 2: 28 (1855).
- Basionym of
- Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) K.Richt., Pl. Eur. 1: 26 (1890).
- Basionym of
- Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum (L.) Trab., Fl. Algérie [Battandier & al.] Monocot.: 132 (1895).
- Basionym of
- Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona (L.) Honda, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 37: 22 (1923).
- Basionym of
- Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum (L.) Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Sci. Algerie 2: 28 (1854).
- Basionym of
- Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link, Hort. Berol. [Link] 2: 209 (1833).
- Replaced synonym of
- Panicum crus-galli var. minus Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. [Thwaites] 359 (1864).