Mikko Piirainen

Mikko Piirainen, botanist.

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Taxon names authored

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• 29 taxon names authored by Mikko Piirainen

Publications

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• Piirainen, M. 1991. Flora Nordica notes I. Salicornia (Chenopodiaceae) in northern Europe: Typification and taxonomic notes. Annales Botanici Fennici 28(1): 81–85. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Kadereit, G., Piirainen, M., Lambinon, J. & Vanderpoorten, A. 2012. Cryptic taxa should have names: Reflections on the glasswort genus Salicornia (Amaranthaceae). Taxon 61(6): 1227–1239. pdf Reference page. 
• Piirainen, M. 2015. (2353) Proposal to conserve the name Halostachys (Chenopodiaceae s.str.; Amaranthaceae sensu APG: Salicornioideae) with a conserved type. Taxon 64(2): 386–387. [1] Reference page. 
• Piirainen, M. 2015. Typification of the name Salicornia deserticola (Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae). Phytotaxa 201(1): 106–108.
• Piirainen, M., Liebisch, O. & Kadereit, G. 2017. Phylogeny, biogeography, systematics and taxonomy of Salicornioideae (Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae) – A cosmopolitan, highly specialized hygrohalophyte lineage dating back to the Oligocene. Taxon 66(1): 109–132. doi: 10.12705/661.6 Reference page.