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UPS-THUNB No.2576
Herbarium AcronymUPS
UPS catalogue No.V-002576
Organism groupVascular plants
Original nameAvena antarctica
Current nameTrisetum bifidum (Thunb.) Ohwi
Present identification
(Japanese name)
kanitsurigusa
Taxon statusnative to Japan
FamilyPoaceae/Gramineae
Identified byKoba, H.
Identification dateSept. 2014
Identification historyThis is the typus of Bromus bifidus Thunberg, a Japanese plant. The fragment to which the name Avena antarctica applies has at some time or other been removed. Is this fragment (from the Cape of Good Hope) perhaps still in the Thunberg Herbarium (under Averastrum antarcticum?) [Det.] D.*.S*****, Kew 19 XI 1935
Locality (original)e Japonia
Locality (interpreted)Japan
Collector (original)Dr. Thunberg
Collector (interpreted)C.P. Thunberg
Notes on the upper sideBr. bifidus Th. Avena antarctica Forst. / Avena flavescens [b]
Notes on the back side
Type statusoriginal material
BasionymBromus bifidus Thunb.
Nomenclatural notes
Typification reference
Reference of protologueSyst. Veg., ed. 14: 119 (1784)
Link to protologue[LINK]
Flora Japonica page53 (as Bromus bifidus)
IconesIcones Plantarum Japonicarum (unpublished) 21
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