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ON THE TYPIFICATION OF MERTENSIA WILLD. NON ROTH (GLEICHENIACEAE) WITH NOTES ON STICHERUS PRESL AND HICRIOPTERIS PRESL
Author(s) -
Holttum R. E.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1219335
Subject(s) - typification , nomenclature , botany , biology , type (biology) , genus , correct name , genealogy , taxonomy (biology) , ecology , history
Summary Pichi Sermolli (1972) has cited Mertensia dichotoma (Thunb. ex Murray) Willd. as lectotype of Mertensia Willd. In so doing he has ignored the taxonomic facts on which earlier citation of M. truncata Willd. as type of Mertensia considered as a subgeneric name was based. The facts are briefly re‐stated, and the selection of M. truncata as type of the genus defended. Brief notes are added on the genera Sticherus and Hicriopteris of Presl. A general objection is made to nomenclatural decisions made without reference to taxonomic considerations.