Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1866
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 76 - Southwestern U.S.A.
label: Collector
content: H. N. Bolander
notes: label: Notes
content: Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson (1871): S. Watson validated Thurber's name (as annotated on specimens), citing two collections (syntypes): Bolander 5038 & Watson 1296. US has several duplicates of Bolander 5038, and fragmentary material of Watson 1296 (ex GH; at least one extant duplicate at NY, and should be another at GH but not in their records). Stipa occidentalis Thurb. (1874): Thurber based his name on a Wilkes Exped. collection (Pickering & Breckenridge s.n.) but included Watson's name, and apparently its types, in synonymy and thus is a superfluous (or isonym) name. [Stipa thurberiana Piper (1900) is supposedly based on this name, but on only one of the several elements cited by Thurber, the Wilkes Expedition collection (=Pickering & Breckinridge s.n.)] Stipa stricta var. sparsiflora Vasey (1892): cites several collections (syntypes), one of which (Bolander 5038) is also a syntype of Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson. Latter hame not cited as synonym and not an explicit nom. nov. for it. Stipa occidentalis var. montana Merr. & Burtt Davy (1902): cites Bolander 5038 as the (sole) type; apparently a superfluous name as this is one of the syntypes of the earlier name Stipa stricta var. sparsiflora Vasey, which would have priority at the varietal rank. In the same publication, Merrill & Burtt explicitly designate Watson 1296 as the type of the species, Stipa occidentalis Thurb. [ex S. Watson], considered here as effectively lectotypifying the name (first step lectotypification). Note that this predates the generally accepted lectotypification (with Bolander 5038 as lectotype) by Hitchcock (1925).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yosemite Trail, Mariposa, California, United States, North America
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
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content: Type of multiple names
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Stipa occidentalis Thurb. ex S. Watson in C. King
label: Published Name
content: Stipa stricta var. sparsiflora Vasey
label: Published Name
content: Stipa occidentalis var. montana Merr. & Burtt Davy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 00141654
label: USNM Number
content: 556915
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Merrill, E. D., Burtt Davy, J. 1902. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1 : 62.
label: Type Citation
content: Vasey, G. 1892. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3 (1): 51.
label: Type Citation
content: Hitchcock, A. S. 1925. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24 : 242.
label: Type Citation
content: Watson, S., King, C. 1871. Rep. U.S. Geol. Explor. Fortieth Par., Bot. 5 : 380.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
label: Type Status
content: Isosyntype
label: Type Status
content: Lectotype
label: Type Status
content: Syntype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Pooideae