Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Details

Name scientific

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor, Muscol. Brit. 80 (1818)

Preferred name

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Taxonomy reference

Fife, A.J. 2017: Daltoniaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 34. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Fife, A.J. (2017)

Nomenclature

Authors

Hook. & Taylor

Original authors

Hook. & Taylor

Publication place

Hooker, W.J.; Taylor, T. 1818: Muscologia Britannica; containing the mosses of Great Britain & Ireland systematically arranged and described. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London.

Year published

1818

Publication page

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Type taxon

Daltonia splachnoides (Sm.) Hook. & Taylor

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Daltonia

Etymology

The genus was named in honour of the Rev. James Dalton (1765?–1843), a cleric of Croft in Yorkshire who studied mosses and the genus Carex. W.J. Hooker and T. Taylor dedicated their Muscologia Brittanica (1818) to James Dalton.

Fife, A.J. 2017: Daltoniaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 34. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Bryophyta

Class

Bryopsida

Order

Hookeriales

Family

Daltoniaceae

Genus

Daltonia

Subordinates

Taxonomic concepts

Name

Cited name

Reference

Preferred name

Parent name

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Fife, A.J. (2017)

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Daltoniaceae Schimp.

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Goffinet, B.; Buck, W.R.; Shaw, A.J. (2009)

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Daltoniaceae Schimp.

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Vitt, D.H. (1984)

Daltoniaceae Schimp.

Collections

Determined name

Country

Geographic region

Indicative databased records

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

Fiji

Daltonia Hook. & Taylor

New Zealand

Southland Land District

Notes

Note type

Etymology

Note text

Note reference

Fife, A.J. 2017: Daltoniaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Wilton, A.D. (ed.) Flora of New Zealand – Mosses. Fascicle 34. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.

Metadata

Record id

375a9aa5-cc60-4451-99ff-4a765d61dd90

Record class

scientific name

Record source

Names_Plants

Date added

1 January 2000

Date last updated

2 March 2017

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