Deschampsia aurea (Munro ex Wedd.) Saarela, 2017

Saarela, Jeffery M., Bull, Roger D., Paradis, Michel J., Ebata, Sharon N., Paul M. Peterson,, Soreng, Robert J. & Paszko, Beata, 2017, Molecular phylogenetics of cool-season grasses in the subtribes Agrostidinae, Anthoxanthinae, Aveninae, Brizinae, Calothecinae, Koeleriinae and Phalaridinae (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae, Poeae chloroplast group 1), PhytoKeys 87, pp. 1-139 : 65

Deschampsia aurea (Munro ex Wedd.) Saarela comb. nov.

Basionym.

Deyeuxia aurea Munro ex Wedd., Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 22: 176 (err. typ. 156), 179. 1875. Calamagrostis aurea (Munro ex Wedd.) Hack. ex Sodiro, Anales Univ. Centr. Ecuador, 3(25): 481. 1889. Type: Ecuador: Andes de Quito, 1859, Jameson s.n. (syntypes: BM! [BM000938555], C! [C10016868], S! [S-R-1454], K! [K000308462, K000308463], GOET [GOET006117], LE! [LE00009397], NY! [00380534], P! [P00729794], US! [US-844970 barcode 00406340, US-844971 barcode 00406339, US-844972 barcode 00149267], W! [W18860008092, W18890241742, W18890028043, W18860008093]). The protologue of the basionym states only "Equateur (Jameson)", and as such there is no holotype or isotypes, despite the interpretations of some authors in the literature ( Escalona 1988b, Soreng and Greene 2003, Vega and de Agrasar 2013) and annotations on herbarium specimens. The name has probably been inadvertently lectotypified, but we have not tracked this.