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Festuca altaica
- Family name: Poaceae
- Common name: Altai fescue
- Growth form: Graminoid
- Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
- Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Festuca altaica
- Toolik Map: Festuca altaica
- Toolik Permanent Plots: Festuca altaica
- Imnavait Creek Permanent Plots: Festuca altaica
- Happy Valley Permanent Plots: Festuca altaica
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- Controversial Drummond isotype specimens: GH. Drummond collections of F. altaica housed at the Gray Herbarium. Left, the original sheet appears to have been cut around the plant material on the left hand side of the sheet and mounted onto a second sheet with no more information on the entire sheet than is shown on the right hand side. On the extreme left the words along the border read, '' F. Thurberi V = scabrella''. The writing at the bottom left hand corner is, ''Rky. Mt. Drummond''. The specimen was photographed by Agriculture Canada as number 279. The upper annotation reads, ''Festuca altaica Trin. in Ledeb. (possible isotype of F. scabrella Torr. in Hook.) Determined by Leon E. Pavlick, B.C. Provincial Museum, Victoria. Sept. 1981.'' The lower annotation reads, ''probably isotype of Festuca scabrella Torr. in Hook. (nix Thurberi!) Aug. 27 1947. C.A. Taylor Jr.'' (C.A. Taylor was a student of H.A. Gleason at Cornell University who began a thesis study of Festuca but never finished it). Right, a second sheet that appears to be the other half of the sheet on the left. This has been stamped ISOTYPE. The annotation beside the stamp reads, ''Festuca scabrella Torr. in Hook. Fl. Bot. Am. 2. p. 252. t. 233. Rocky Mts. Hook. ex. Torr. Drummond (original stook)''. A second closely associated label reads, ''Ex. Herb. George Thurber (Purchased 1800)''.
Image author: unknown
Website: Festuca of North America
See also: DELTA-DEscription Language for Taxonomy
Source of original image
- Habitat and inflorescence. Habitat and inflorescence of F. altaica. Left, a zone dominated by F. altaica in the China Head Mountains of British Columbia. Right, inflorescences photographed against the skyline to show the drooping angles of the branches. Canada.
British Columbia, Canada.
Image author: unknown
Website: Festuca of North America
See also: DELTA, DEscription Language for TAxonomy
Source of original image
- Panicle. Alaska: Krusenstern National Monument, Sheshalik. July 2001. AK, USA
July 2001. AK, USA
Image author: Heidi Solstad ?
Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Source of original image
- Plant in cliff habitat. Plant on exposed cliff. Alaska: White Mts, Eagle Summit. July 1998. Photographed by R.Elven. Voucher in HbO. Panicle. Alaska: Krusenstern National Monument, Sheshalik. July 2001. AK, USA
July 2001. AK, USA
Image author: Heidi Solstad ?
Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Source of original image
- For more information about this plant:
- USDA PLANTS Database: feal
- Panarctic Flora
- Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Nomenclature:
- Vascular Plants:
- Elven, R., Murray, D.F., Razzhivin, V.Y. & Yurtsev, B.A. (2006): Checklist of the Panarctic Flora (PAF). Vascular plants. University of Oslo, Oslo.
Annotated Checklist of the Panarctic Flora (PAF) Vascular plants, version 1.0, 2011The PAF website is an international effort by numerous respected plant taxonomists who have compiledthis checklist of accepted names and synonyms of vascular plants that occur in the Arctic. Please see the introduction (http://gbif.no/paf/introduction) for a detailed explanation of what is included in the PAF vascular plant list, and the preface (http://gbif.no/paf/) for a list of contributors and acknowledgement of support.
- Elven, R., Murray, D.F., Razzhivin, V.Y. & Yurtsev, B.A. (2006): Checklist of the Panarctic Flora (PAF). Vascular plants. University of Oslo, Oslo.
- Vascular Plants:
- Other possible sources for additional information and photos:
- Botanika FotogalerieCzech botanical photo gallery, in Czech
- Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, Herbarium – University of WisconsinThe University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Herbarium houses a collection of approximately 35,000 dried vascular plant vouchers, of which over 90% are from Wisconsin.
- DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)
is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It has been adopted by the International Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) as a standard for data exchange. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems. - Den virtuella floranSwedish Natural History Museum; in Swedish. Search by Latin name at Innehållsförteckning.
- Digital Natural History of Newfoundland and LabradorThe website is a co-operative project/partnership, involving a number of individual participants, some representing present or former parent institutions or agencies, others representing themselves. The website was begun, originally, to serve as a working image resource for the Newfoundland Rare Plant Project. It is hosted by one of its main partners, the The Rooms, Provincial Museum. Rights to the images and data included remain with the various individual partners.
- Flora Danica OnlineThe digitizing of Flora Danica is part of a CultureNet Denmark project carried out at The Danish National Library of Science and Medicine (DNLB). The purpose of the project is to publish Danish plates of natural history on the WWW. All 3240 plates are available on the WWW. It is posssible to search individual plants and to browse the plates.
- Flora of North AmericaFNA presents for the first time, in one published reference source, information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico.
- Josef Hlasek - Photo GalleriesPhoto gallery of plant images
- Leif & Anita Stridvall Plant GalleryGallery of lichen images; identified with scientific name, location of photograph, date, and subject width.
- Lichen Herbarium – University of Oslo, NorwayThe lichen herbarium at the Botanical Museum in Oslo consists of a Norwegian herbarium (c. 100,000 specimens), a foreign herbarium (c. 170,000 specimens), a type herbarium (c. 1,000 specimens), and a collection of exsiccatae (c. 5,000 specimens).The herbarium maintains a database of species housed in our Norwegian and foreign herbaria, a checklist of the Norwegian lichens, and the list of Norwegian vernacular names for lichens proposed by the Norwegian Botanical Society. These lists may be downloaded from our Up-/Download page.
- Linnean Herbarium – Swedish Museum of Natural HistoryThe Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts. The specimens were once distributed by Linnaeus to his disciples and eventually they became part of the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, subsequently the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Linnaeus' main collections are today housed at the The Linnean Society of London.
- Michael Luth - Pictures of BryophytesIn German; very well organized, 50-75 preview images from several for-sale CDs, with photographs of bryophytes; includes habitat, habitus and details, in the field and in the studio. The pictures are in jpg format with a solution of 800x600 or 1024x768 pixels and are available to use in lectures, presentations and publications (with reference to the author). The disks comes with a ready installed picture browser.
- Norwegian Botanical Society In Norwegian; see NBF's Plantefotoarkiv for a list of Latin names; select name to see photos.
- Plants of IcelandThis site deals with the birds, plants, and landscape of Iceland. It offers photographic guides to characteristic floral elements, birdlife, and landscape images of this remarkable island: in the top menu choose "entries start". Next to the photo-illustrated guides, in-depth information on vegetation, bird life and geology is presented in the "birds/plants information pages" and the "landscape features of Iceland". Also two internal search programs are included through which you can search directly for information on specific plants or birds.
- Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium – University of WisconsinThis website attempts to present information to the botanists and general public about the plants growing in Wisconsin. The site is divided into several areas. Natural Communities, Ethnobotany, Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens. Each Species Detail page has, when available: a thumbnail map, photograph, synonym list, descriptions of the plant including status, size, flower, stem, leaf, fruit, blooming times, botanical name derivation, and links to ethobotanical uses, additional photographs, natural community information, detail distribution maps, direct links for more information, and Google searches.
- The Plant Listfrom the website: The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts). It does not include algae or fungi. Version 1 contains 1,244,871 million scientific plant names of which 298,900 are accepted species names. It includes no vernacular or common plant names.
- USFS National Lichens & Air Quality Database and Clearinghouse
- Wisconsin BryophytesBryophytes; a subset of the Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium
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