Feedback request: Poa balfourii (29269)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #291279

Taxon:	Poaceae: Poa nemoralis L. ("Wood Meadow-grass") named by Charles Cardale Babington
Other name:	Poa balfourii
Filed in taxon folder:	Poa balfourii
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	30/8/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC42 Breconshire, Llanthony, SO22, Mountain rocks llanthony valley about 1000ft
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	" Nemorlais" C.C.B.

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Documented by hallucigenia on 7^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
08/03/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted determination (orig): Poa balfourii
08/03/2010	hallucigenia	Added determination (orig): Poa balfourii
08/03/2010	hallucigenia	Added determination (orig): Poa nemoralis
08/03/2010	hallucigenia	Added determiner: Prof Charles Cardale Babington

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hallucigenia wrote

" Nemorlais" ?

[mossysal]

It is "P. nemoralis" probably det by Babington. (C C B) which probably should be entered as the preferred taxon name.

Stace (1997) doesn't accept P. balfouri but refers it to P.glauca. The new Grasses handbook says "P. glauca is part of a difficult complex...centred on P. nemoralis. It is just barely tenable as a separate species". But it also says that "plants [of P. glauca] from sheltered places ('P.balfouri') can resemble montane forms of P. nemoralis". However neither P. balfouri nor P. glauca are recorded from VC42 by the BSBI.

[hallucigenia]

Many thanks, what fun first time a name change for me.
I lent to a "friend" my Grasses book many years ago and of course never got it back.
Chris