Alopecurus pratensis laguriformis (Schur) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 8: 19 (1971)

Novikov, Andriy, 2023, An annotated nomenclatural checklist of endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103921-103921 : 103921

Alopecurus pratensis laguriformis (Schur) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 8: 19 (1971)

Alopecurus laguriformis ≡ Alopecurus laguriformis Schur, Verh. Siebenb. Ver. Naturw. 1: (1850) 182 [nom. nudum] et Schur ex Gris., Iter. Hung: 362 (1852) *; GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/5672208; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/387117-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000845668; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/387117-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11525300#page/190; JSTOR Global Plants: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.w0025395

Alopecurus laguriformis = Alopecurus laguriformis [unranked] a Alopecurus laguriformis abbreviatus Schur, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 13 (1859); BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36437#page/19

Alopecurus laguriformis = Alopecurus laguriformis [unranked] b Alopecurus laguriformis elongatus Schur, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 13 (1859) et Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 727 (1866); GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/5943426; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/77263212-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000845589; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/77263212-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36437#page/19

Alopecurus transsilvanicus = Alopecurus transsilvanicus Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 727 (1866); GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/species/5671949; IPNI: https://www.ipni.org/n/387210-1; WFO: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000845481; POWO: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/387210-1; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10544778#page/749

Alopecurus brachystachyus - Alopecurus brachystachyus auct. [e.g., Janka], non M.Bieb.

Colobachne gerardi - Colobachne gerardi Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 728 (1866), non Link.; BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10544778#page/750

Conservation status

In Ukraine - DD ( Onyshchenko et al. 2022).

Distribution

SE Carpathian endemic.

Notes

Three (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/387176-1, accessed on 05.06.2023) to five (https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/1d82b70c-8685-4ea4-a6d2-296864770429, accessed on 05.06.2023) subspecies of A. pratensis L. are recognised viz. subsp. pratensis (cosmopolite), subsp. alpestris (Wahlenb.) Selander (occurs in Northern Eurasia), subsp. laguriformis (occurs in Romania and, probably, in Ukraine), subsp. songaricus (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) N.V.Vlassova (questionable taxon declared for Asia) and subsp. pseudonigricans O.Schwarz. (dubious taxon mentioned for Germany and Czech republic). WFO (https://list.worldfloraonline.org/wfo-0000845656, accessed on 05.06.2023) also recognises A. pratensis var. aquaticus (Dumort.) Mathieu (≡ A. aquaticus Dumort.), which is, however, synonymised by the rest of the databases with the widely distributed A. arundinaceus Poir. Presence of A. pratensis subsp. laguriformis in the Ukrainian Carpathians is doubtful and requires confirmation ( Chopyk and Fedoronchuk 2015).

GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/species/5672406, accessed on 05.06.2023) POWO (https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/387039-1, accessed on 05.06.2023), WFO (https://list.worldfloraonline.org/wfo-0000845481, accessed on 05.06.2023) and Worldplants (https://www.worldplants.de/world-plants-complete-list/complete-plant-list?name=Alopecurus-brachystachyus, accessed on 07.06.2023), mistakenly indicate A. laguriformis var. elongatus Schur and A. transsilvanicus Schur as synonyms of A. brachystachyus M.Bieb. Schur (1866), on page 727, indeed synonymised A. transsilvanicus with A. laguriformis var. elongatus distributed in Făgăraș ( Schur 1859) and Rodna Mts. ( Schur 1866). Schur (1866), on pages 727 and 728, also pointed out that Neilreich (1861) believed that A. transsilvanicus , A. colobachnoides Trin. and A. vlassovii Trin are synonyms of A. brachystachyus distributed in the Carpathians (Făgăraș, Rodna and Kronstadt [= Brașov]). However, Neilreich’s taxonomic interpretation of the mentioned taxa was mistaken because he relied on Janka (1858), who concluded that revised specimens of A. laguriformis are identical to the plants of A. vlassovii from the Altai and Baikal. In fact, this Janka’s conclusion led to the synonymisation of A. laguriformis with A. vlassovii and, consequently, with A. colobachnoides , which are morphologically different and geographically isolated taxa Tzvelev (1976). Such Janka’s misinterpretation of A. laguriformis was first outlined by Simonkai (1886). Later, Tzvelev (1971), in his revision of the genus Alopecurus distinguished A. brachystachyus and A. laguriformis and downgraded the last one to the rank of subspecies A. pratensis subsp. laguriformis Tzvelev (1974), Tzvelev (1976), Tzvelev (1978) and Tzvelev (1978) also pointed out that A. pratensis subsp. laguriformis is known exclusively from the Carpathians, while A. brachystachyus (≡ A. colobachnoides and = A. vlassovii ) occurs out of Europe far to the east, in the Caucasus, Siberia, China and Mongolia.