Tribolium

[Thomas Lammers]

At 01:51 PM 5/31/00 +1000, Vr. Richard Bejsak-Collorado-Mansfeld wrote:

>only for interest the beetle has been described by Australian William John
>Macleay 1825.. and I would like to know when and by who the grass has been
>described.

By Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784-1856) in 1831.




Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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