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IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:319301-2
Species Name
Melica diffusa Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. (Pursh) 1: 77 (1813).
Publication Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA Collation 37: 44
Date of Publication 21 Apr 1885
Family as entered in IPNI
Poaceae
Type Information
Collector Team T.Nuttall s.n.
Locality Pennsylvania, Illinois, southward and westward to Texas.
Type Herbaria null PH
Chosen By Hitchc. Misc. Publ. U.S.D.A. No. 200: 884. 1935 [Feb 1935] Distribution Of Types Arkansas (Southeastern U.S.A., Northern America)
Type Remarks The variety (syntypes) = No. 3464 a, Curtiss' Distribution N. Am. Plants, coll. in Texas by J. Reverchon ; also 389, Lindheimer, and 2062, C. Wright. ... M. nitcns, Nutt. in Herb. Phila. Acad. M. mutica, Torr. in Marcy's Rept.
Links
Nomenclatural link Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 387 (1905).
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