Panicastrella, P. Micheli, 1729
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https://doi.org/10.3767/000651914X684376 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B70E2F-8F61-FFF6-FCBB-A0C2FAFAF9AB |
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Felipe |
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Panicastrella |
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The name Panicastrella P. Micheli (1729) refers to the sup- posed similarity of the plant to Panicum . The ‘genus’ included two American ‘species’, actually a splitting up of what Sloane (1696, 1707) had described as Gramen echinatum , maximum, spica rubra seu alba, a red and a white form of C. echinatus .
In post-Linnean times Moench (1794: 205) validated the name. It is a nomen rejiciendum against Echinaria Desf. (1799: 385) . He included two species, now belonging to two different genera: Panicastrella capitata (L.) Moench, based on C. capitatus L., now Echinaria capitata (L.) Desf., and Panicastrella muricata Moench , a superfluous name for C. echinatus .
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