Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C)
Author
Jarvis, Charlie
Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK
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Carex leporina
Linnaeus
,
Species Plantarum
2
: 973. 1753
.
"Habitat in Europae pratis udis." RCN: 7063.
Lectotype
(Egorova,
Sedges Russia
: 545. 1999): [icon] "
Gr.
Cyp. palustre
majus spica divisa
" in Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. 3: 244, s. 8, t. 12, f. 29. 1699.
Current name:
Carex leporina
L.
(
Cyperaceae
).
Note:
Turland (in
Taxon
46: 341. 1997) proposed the rejection of
C. leporina
against
C. lachenalii
Schkuhr
but this was not recommended by the Committee for Spermatophyta (in
Taxon
48: 367. 1999) because of uncertainty over its typification. The type proposed by Nelmes (in
Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles
13: 337. 1948), 1100.19 (LINN), is identifiable as
C. lachenalii
but Egorova (
Sedges Russia
: 543. 1999) rejected this type choice on the grounds of conflict with the protologue, and typified the name instead using the cited Morison plate, identifiable with what has been called
C. ovalis
Good. The Committee
for Spermatophyta (in
Taxon
54: 1095. 2005) subsequently reconsidered the proposal and, accepting
Egorova's
typification, found that rejection as proposed was unnecessary.
Carex leporina
is therefore the correct name for what has been known as
C. ovalis
.