Unable to create a templated function pointer to std::max

The following code will not compile with icpc 15.0.2:

#include <algorithm>
#include <array>
#include <numeric>

template<typename T>
T const & (*maxer) (T const &, T const &) = std::max<T>;

int main(void) {
    std::array<float, 8> data;
    std::iota(data.begin(), data.end(), 0.0f);
    if (std::accumulate(data.begin(), data.end(), 0.0f, maxer<float>) == 7.0f) {
        return 0;
    } else {
        return 1;
    }
}

Here is the output:

$ icpc -std=c++14 -Wall -Wextra max.cc
max.cc(6): error: "maxer" is not a function or static data member
  T const & (*maxer) (T const &, T const &) = std::max<T>;
              ^

max.cc(11): error: identifier "maxer" is undefined
      if (std::accumulate(data.begin(), data.end(), 0.0f, maxer<float>) == 7.0f) {
                                                          ^

max.cc(11): error: type name is not allowed
      if (std::accumulate(data.begin(), data.end(), 0.0f, maxer<float>) == 7.0f) {
                                                                ^

max.cc(11): error: expected an expression
      if (std::accumulate(data.begin(), data.end(), 0.0f, maxer<float>) == 7.0f) {
                                                                      ^

compilation aborted for max.cc (code 2)

This code compiles successfully under clang++ and g++. As far as I can tell it is completely standards complaint. I suspect this is just a bug. I can work around it in the meantime by removing the template and hard-coding a type.