Peridictyon

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Pooideae
Tribus: Hordeeae
Subtribus: Hordeinae
Genus: Peridictyon
Species: P. sanctum
Name

Peridictyon Seberg, Fred. & Baden, Willdenowia 21: 96 (1991)
monotypic taxon

References

Seberg, O., Frederiksen, S. & Baden, C. (1991) Willdenowia 21(1–2): 96.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2013. Peridictyon in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 7. Reference page.
Simon, B.K., Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T., Vorontsova, M., Brake, I., Healy, D. & Alfonso, Y. 2013. GrassWorld, Peridictyon. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 7.
Tropicos.org 2013. Peridictyon. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2013 Dec. 7.
International Plant Names Index. 2013. Peridictyon. Published online. Accessed: 7 Dec. 2013.

Peridictyon is a name that has been used for a genus of grass with a single species, Peridictyon sanctum nom. inval., native to southern Bulgaria and northern Greece,[1] but a technical problem with the publication means that it is not a botanical name.
Botanical nomenclature

When the genus name Peridictyon was published,[1] the authors cited the type as the combinatio nova P. sancta (Janka) Seberg, Fred. & Baden, based on Festuca sancta Janka. What they did not notice, however, is that the description provided in the publication of F. sancta Janka[2] includes remarks about finding the species, but does not list any features of the plant that would distinguish it from other species in the genus Festuca as is required by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.[3] This oversight has been judged by Index Nominum Genericorum to mean that Peridictyon (and P. sanctum) are not validly published.[4]
See also

List of Balkan endemic plants

References

Seberg, O.; Signe, F.; Baden, C.; Linde-Laursen, I. (1991), "Peridictyon, a new genus from the Balkan Peninsula, and its relationship with Festucopsis (Poaceae)", Willdenowia, 21 (1/2): 87–104, JSTOR 3996595
"Letter from Janka to the journal from Salonich, 8 August 1871", Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift, 21: 249–252, 1871 (in German)
McNeill, J.; Barrie, F.R.; Buck, W.R.; Demoulin, V.; Greuter, W.; Hawksworth, D.L.; Herendeen, P.S.; Knapp, S.; Marhold, K.; Prado, J.; Prud'homme Van Reine, W.F.; Smith, G.F.; Wiersema, J.H.; Turland, N.J. (2012), International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011, Regnum Vegetabile 154, A.R.G. Gantner Verlag KG, ISBN 978-3-87429-425-6 Articles 6.10 and 38
Index Nominum Genericorum, retrieved 3 April 2016