Chalcoelytrum Lunell

, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4(5): 212 (1915), nom. illeg. BHL
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IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296393-2
Publication
American Midland Naturalist; devoted to natural history, primarily that of the prairie states.
Collation
4(5): 212
Date of Publication
20 Sep 1915
Family as entered in IPNI
Poaceae

Nomenclatural Notes

Status: nom. illeg. nom. superfl.

Remarks

protologue: CHALCOELYTRUM Lunell, nom. nov. (from chalco; copper, and elytron, husk, alluding to the copper-tinted glumes of the spikelets). Chrysopogon Trin. Fund. Agrost. 187. (1820). Sorghastrum Nash, Britt. Man. 71. (1901), name built on Sorghum and just as cheap and undesirable as diminutives in ella.

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Replaced synonym
Sorghastrum Nash, Man. Fl. N. States [Britton] 71 (1901).
Same citation as
Chalcoelytrum Lunell, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 1915, iv. 212.