- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60440784-2
- Publication
- Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, Missouri
- Collation
- 92(4): 551 (-553; fig. 1)
- Date of Publication
- 28 Dec 2005
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Poaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- C. Marticorena, O. Matthei & M. Quezada 86
- Locality
- Región I: camino de Arica al Portezuelo de Chapiquiña, km 111, alt. 4100 m
- Collection Date
- 9 Feb 1964
- Type Herbaria
- holotype CONC
- Latitude
- 18° 18' S
- Longitude
- 69° 30' W
- Distribution Of Types
- Tarapacá (Chile)
Remarks
Eponymy: The specific epithet honors the Chilean agrostologist, Oscar Matthei Jensen, retired Professor at the Universidad de Conception, Chile