Astragalus speirocarpus var. falciformis A.Gray

, Bot. California [W.H.Brewer] 1: 152 (1876). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25643-2
Species Name
Astragalus speirocarpus A.Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 225 (1864).
Publication
Geological Survey of California. J. D. Whitney, State Geologist. Botany. Cambridge, MA
Collation
1: 152
Date of Publication
May-Jun 1876
Family as entered in IPNI
Fabaceae

Type Information

Collector Team
J. G. Lemmon 621
Collection Date
1874
Type Herbaria
lectotype GH
Chosen By
Barneby Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 13: 305. 1964
Distribution Of Types
Sierra County (California, Southwestern U.S.A., Northern America)

Remarks

Protologue includes 3 syntypes (Sierra Co. (Lemmon) and adjacent mountains of Nevada (Watson) ; the original collected by Lyall on the Upper Columbia, in fruit only.). Barneby cited the Lemmon 77 specimen at GH as the holotype and thus inadvertently lectotypified the varietal name.

Links

Basionym of
Astragalus gibbsii var. falciformis (A.Gray) M.E.Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 8: 23 (1898).
Basionym of
Astragalus gibbsii var. falciformis (A.Gray) Jones
Nomenclatural link
Astragalus curvicarpus (A.Heller) J.F.Macbr., Contr. Gray Herb. 65: 38 (1922).
Nomenclatural link
Astragalus speirocarpus var. curvicarpus E.Sheld.
Replaced synonym of
Astragalus speirocarpus var. curvicarpus E.Sheld., Bull. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. 9(3): 125 (1894), nom. illeg.
Replaced synonym of
Astragalus gibbsii var. curvicarpus M.E.Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 10: 62 (1902), nom. illeg.
Replaced synonym of
Homalobus curvicarpus A.Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 86 (1905).