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New names in Gunnerus's Flora Norvegica , and their typification
Author(s) -
Jørgensen Per M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.1002/tax.615013
Subject(s) - typification , flora (microbiology) , biology , correct name , carex , botany , nomenclature , geography , ecology , zoology , genealogy , taxonomy (biology) , history , bacteria , genetics
A study of Flora Norvegica by Johan Ernst Gunnerus revealed that no less than 39 new species names were validly published in the work. Most of them have not previously been effectively typified, though several of the names are in current use. This is done here, except for those of three sponges (animals), four nonlichenized fungi and five mosses (those in the lastnamed group are prestartingpoint names). The names of two species, those currently known as Carex norvegica Retz. and Rhizocarpon oederi (Weber) Körber, would need to change as a result of this, unless conservation or rejection proposals to preserve these names are accepted.