African Plant Database


Stipa gigantea Link
Family : POACEAE
Protologue : J. Bot. (Schrader) 2: 313 (1799)
Information on the genus : Stipa
 
 
Status
Status for NA : rejected (present), is synonym of : Macrochloa arenaria (Brot.) Kunth
 
Synonym(s) Homotypic
 Celtica gigantea (Link) F.M.Vàzquez & Barkworth
 Celtica gigantea (Link) F.M.Vàzquez & Barkworth subsp. gigantea
 Macrochloa gigantea (Link) Hack. (1880)
 Stipa gigantea Link subsp. gigantea
 
Synonym(s) Heterotypic
=Stipa gigantea subsp. donyanae F.M.Vàzquez & Devesa (1996)
=Celtica gigantea subsp. donyanae (F.M.Vàzquez & Devesa) F.M.Vàzquez (2004)
=Stipa gigantea var. maroccana Pau & Font Quer (1929)
=Stipa gigantea subsp. maroccana (Pau & Font Quer) Vásquez & Devesa (1997)
=Stipa gigantea var. mesatlantica Andr. (1934)
=Stipa arenaria Brot. (1804)
=Macrochloa arenaria (Brot.) Kunth (1815)
=Celtica gigantea subsp. maroccana (Font Quer) F.M.Vàzquez & Barkworth (2004)
=Macrochloa gigantea var. maroccana Pau & Font Quer (1928)
 
Taxon infra-specific
Stipa gigantea Link subsp. gigantea

Bibliography for Southern Africa :
  • Cat. New World Grasses IV : 432 (2003).
  • Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 144[4]: 491-493 (2004).

Bibliography for North Africa :
  • JAHANDIEZ, E. & R. MAIRE (1931). Catalogue des Plantes du Maroc. Minerva, Lechevalier éds., Alger. [p.33]
  • MAIRE, R. (1953). FLORE DE L'AFRIQUE DU NORD. Lechevalier éd., Paris, [p.65]
  • TUTIN, T. G. & al. (ed.) (1980). Flora Europaea. (vol. 5) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [p.252]
  • VALDES, B., S. TALAVERA & E. FERNANDEZ-GALIANO (ed.) - (1987). Flora Vascular de Andalucía Occidental, vol. 3 Ketrès éditoria, Barcelona. [p.384]
  • VÁZQUEZ, F. M. & J. A. DEVESA (1997). Two new species and combinations of Stipa L. (Graminae) from nothwest Africa. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 124: [202-209]
 
More info on :
see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative
see under The International Plant Name Index
see under Herbarium, North Africa MPU
 
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Record n°159792 created 2008-12-08 - modified 2008-12-08
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