: Category: Foreign project

A taxonomic revision of selected species complexes of Calamagrostis s.l. for the local Asian floras

Funding

Programme SYNTHESYS+ (European Union); within the "Research Infrastructures" action under the FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" Programme

Number

FR-TAF-2788

Duration

2020–2021

Leader

Dr. Beata Paszko

Summary

Dr. Beata Paszko received support from the SYNTHESYS+ Programme for a short research visit in the P herbarium housed in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. The aim of the project is to revise selected species complexes of the genus Calamagrostis (including Asian Deyeuxia) for two regional floras (Flora of Pan-Himalaya and Flora of Nepal), taking into account nomenclatural types.

Grass glued together with labels onto a sheet of paper yellowed by age. Next to it lies a color chart and a centimeter scale

Type of Calamagrostis collina Franchet (P00740460).
Photo: Courtesy of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

Grass glued together with labels onto a sheet of paper yellowed by age

Type of Calamagrostis robusta (P00172135).
Photo: Courtesy of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

A long room with metal rolling archive shelves on one side and a row of tables and chairs on the other

A room with a collection of grasses in the P herbarium in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.
Photo: B. Paszko.