- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:75-2
- Species Name
- Abronia fragrans Nutt. ex Hook., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 261 (1853).
- Publication
- Botanical Gazette; Paper of Botanical Notes. Crawfordsville, IN, Chicago, IL
- Collation
- 34(4): 364
- Date of Publication
- Nov 1902
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Nyctaginaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- E. G. B. Gooding 210
- Locality
- 'Casper ... in sandy, rocky river bottoms.'
- Collection Date
- 6 Jul 1901
- Type Herbaria
- neotype US
- Distribution Of Types
- Natrona County (Wyoming, Northwestern U.S.A., Northern America)
- Type Remarks
- Standley: No type was designated in the original description, and I would suggest as a type the collection from Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming. in sandy, rocky river bottoms. July 6, 1901, Goodding 210
Remarks
Protologue (1902): Recently a specimen of Abronia fragrans Nutt. was received from T. D. A. Cockerell, of New Mexico. It seemed so different from the Wyoming form of that species that it led to an inquiry as to the typical A. fragrans. All the literature indicates a viscid pubescent plant, and that is just what we find in specimens secured to the southward and eastward of Wyoming. The Wyoming form, which seems to extend northward and westward, differs so essentially, it seems to me, that it may well bear a varietal name. ...
Links
- Nomenclatural link
- Abronia glaucescens Standl., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 326 (1909).