Briza media L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 343-369 : 359

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Briza media Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 1: 70. 1753 View Cited Treatment .

"Habitat in Europae partis [sic] siccioribus." RCN: 593.

Lectotype (Meikle, Fl. Cyprus 2: 1720. 1985): Herb. Linn. No. 88.5 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Briza Linnaeus (vide Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 120. 1929).

Current name: Briza media L. View in CoL ( Poaceae ).

Note: Briza minor had been treated as the generitype of Briza by Nash (in Britton & Brown, III. Fl. N. U. S., ed. 2, 1: 250. 1913) (see McNeill & al. in Taxon 36: 362. 1987). However, under Art. 10.5, Ex. 7 (a voted example) of the Vienna Code, this is a type choice made under the American Code and is to be replaced under Art. 10.5b by Hitchcock’s choice (Prop. Brit. Bot.: 120. 1929) of B. media L.