New names in living Ocotea Aubl. (Lauraceae) and a remark on Litsea cuneata

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 490 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-300
Author(s):  
PEDRO LUÍS RODRIGUES DE MORAES
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
New Name ◽  
Fossil Leaves ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Nomen Novum

In the present communication, after checking fossil plant names in the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI 2014–onwards), the homonymy of two fossil and extant species names of Ocotea Aublet (1775: 780) has been detected and resolved. Ocotea alata van der Werff (1991: 416) (extant) is replaced by a new name O. loretensis nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym O. alata Givulescu (1975: 173) (fossil leaves), according to Article 53.1 of the ICN (Turland et al. 2018). Similarly, O. morona-santiagoensis nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later illegitimate homonym O. pilosa van der Werff (2020: 220) (extant) non O. pilosa Givulescu (1975: 172) (fossil leaves). An additional homonym was found in extant Litsea Lamarck (1792: 574) that is preoccupied by a fossil. However, since it is currently recognized as a taxonomic synonym of Litsea tomentosa Blume (1826: 566), there is no need to create a nomen novum for it.

Cinnamomum phoebe, a new name for the extant C. elongatum (Lauraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 243 (2) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Borisovitch Doweld
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Plant Names

The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) lists some fossil plant species names which have precedence over homonymic extant species names. A few cases of the homonymy between extant and fossil species were recently resolved (Turner 2014, Doweld 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2015d).

Styrax carranzae, a new name for extant Styrax lanceolatus P.W. Fritsch non Engelhardt (Styracaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 460 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-236
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Additional Case ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Fossil Records

In revising fossil records of the genus Styrax Linnaeus (1753: 444) for the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) with the aim of listing all fossil plant species (Doweld 2015, 2016a), it became apparent that a few fossil-species are later illegitimate homonyms of the extant species of Styrax, and their nomenclature was recently resolved by proposing new replacement names for them (Doweld 2016b). However, an additional case of the homonymy of an extant species by a preoccupied name in fossils remained unsettled.

Cissus notabilis, a new name for extant Cissus spectabilis (Vitaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 231 (1) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Borisovitch Doweld
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Far East ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Nomen Novum

The creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) with the aim of listing of all fossil plant species reveals a few new cases of homonymy between fossil and extant species. The name Cissus spectabilis (Kurz) Planchon (1887: 1092), originally published as Vitis spectabilis Kurz (1874: 196), is an illegitimate later homonym of Cissus spectabilis Heer (1878: 45) (Art. 53.1 of the ICN, McNeill et al., 2012). C. spectabilis Heer is a fossil-species currently accepted (Kirchheimer 1939, Sosnowsky 1949, 1974, Kryshtofovich & Baikovskaja 1960), described from the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian) deposits of Sakhalin island (Far East, Russian Federation). Since the preoccupied extant species C. spectabilis (Kurz) Planch., a narrow Indian endemic restricted to Sikkim, Siliguri and neighboring localities of West Bengal, is also currently recognized as a valid species (The Plant List 2013 onwards; eFlora of India 2014 onwards) and it does not have any synonym, a nomen novum, C. notabilis, is here formally proposed as a replacement name.

scholarly journals Quercus rajushkinae, a new name for Quercus lavrovii Rajushkina (Fagaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 221 (1) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Borisovitch Doweld
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Leaf Remains ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Nomen Novum

The fossil species Quercus lavrovii Rajushkina (1987: 146) was described on the fossil leaf remains of an oak from the Miocene sediments of Dzhungarian Aktau, Ili depression (Kazakhstan, Central Asia). However, according to Art. 53.1 of ICN (McNeill et al. 2012) this name is illegitimate because of the existence of an overlooked earlier homonym, Quercus lavrovii Budantsev (1955: 93) which was originally described from the earlier Oligocene deposits of Bestau, Turgay (Kazakhstan). The homonymy between these fossil species emerged during the creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index, which is planned to list all fossil plant species (IFPNI 2014 onwards). Since the preoccupied species P. lavrovii Rajushk. is systematically recognized as a valid species in current use and it does not have any synonym, a nomen novum, Q. rajushkinae, is here formally proposed as a replaced name.

Chara nikolskae, a new name for Chara elliptica Nikolskaja (1984) non Fritzsche (1924) and Aclistochara elliptica (Fritzsche) comb. nov. (Characeae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 226 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Alexander Borisovitch Doweld
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Algal Species ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
New Name ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Holocene Sediments ◽  
The Creation

The fossil species Chara elliptica Nikolskaja (1984: 1092) was established on the gyrogonite remains from the Holocene sediments of Majkara (Kazakhstan, Central Asia). However, according to Art. 53.1 of ICN (McNeill et al., 2012) this name is illegitimate because of the existence of an overlooked earlier homonym, Chara elliptica Fritzsche (1924: 93) which was originally described from the earlier Cretaceous (Campanian) deposits of Tres Cruces and Negra Muerta, Province Jujuy, North Argentina (South America). Due to the creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index with listing of all fossil plant and algal species, the fact of the homonymy between fossil species was solidly established (IFPNI, 2014-).

New names in Cinnamomoides, Cinnamomum and Neolitsea (Lauraceae), and Pterospermum (Malvaceae), fossil and living

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 326 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
Keyword(s):  
New Combinations ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Fossil Leaves ◽  
Extant Species

The homonymy of some fossil and extant species names of Cinnamomum is resolved. Cinnamomum gracile (Geyler) Ettingshausen (fossil) is replaced by a new name C. camphoricum nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym C. gracile Miquel (extant); C. costulatum nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym C. apiculatum Saporta (fossil fruits) non C. apiculatum Pilar (fossil leaves); C. fajumicum nom. nov. is proposed instead of C. africanum Engelhardt (fossil) non C. africanum Lukmanoff (extant); C. kalbaricum nom. nov. instead of C. grandifolium Cammerloher (extant) non C. grandifolium (Ettingshausen) Schimper (fossil); C. weddellii nom. nov. in place of C. orbiculatum Lukmanoff (extant) non C. orbiculatum Saporta (fossil). Cinnamomum camphoricarpum sp. nov. is validated instead of the invalidly published C. macropodum Miki (lacking holotype designation when published) based on fossil fruits and seeds from Pliocene sediments of Japan. Cinnamomum goeppertii Ettingshausen is rehabilitated as a legitimate substitute for Daphnogene javanica Göppert, because the combination C. javanicum (Göppert) van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, van Waveren & Jonkers is illegitimate due to the existence of an earlier homonym, C. javanicum Blume (extant). Pterospermum wilkieanum nom. nov. (Malvaceae) is proposed instead of P. gracile Wilkie (extant) non P. gracile Geyler (fossil) (≡ C. gracile (Geyler) Ettingshausen). Cinnamomum salicifolium (Nees) Kostermans and C. trinerve (Lundell) Kostermans (extant) were found to be later illegitimate homonyms of fossil-species, C. salicifolium Staub and C. trinerve Bell respectively. Furthermore Cinnamomiphyllum Nathorst, Daphnogene grandifolia, D. lanceolata, Cinnamomum broteroi, C. orbiculatum, C. salicifolium Staub (non (Nees) Kostermans), C. trinerve Bell (non (Lundell) Kostermans), and C. ucrainicum are lectotypified. New combinations are validated: Cinnamomoides broteroi comb. nov., C. ellipticum comb. nov., C. humei comb. nov., C. jordanicum comb. nov., Cinnamomum duabicum comb. nov., Neolitsea marginata comb. nov., N. pannonica comb. nov., N. staubii comb. nov. As an addition to Taxonomic Literature II records, the precise dates of publication of the taxonomic works of Göppert’s Die Tertiärflora auf der Insel Java (1854), Lukmanoff’s Nomenclature et iconographie des Canneliers et Camphriers (1878, not 1889), Ettingshausen’s Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tertiärflora der Insel Java (1883) and Zur Tertiärflora von Borneo (1883, not 1884) are established here.

New names of fossil Hemitrapa and Trapa (Lythraceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 252 (3) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Code Of Nomenclature ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
The Creation ◽  
International Code Of Nomenclature

The creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) with the aim of listing of all fossil plant species reveals a few new cases of homonymy between fossil and extant species. In the present paper there are proposed two new combinations in Hemitrapa Miki (1941: 289) and four replacing names for later homonyms of Trapa Linnaeus (1753: 120) that are illegitimate (Art. 53.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants—ICN, McNeill et al., 2012).

Elaeocarpus sveshnikovae, a new name for the fossil-species Elaeocarpus microphyllus (Elaeocarpaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 227 (3) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Borisovitch Doweld
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Fungal Species ◽  
Fossil Plant ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Plant Names ◽  
Plant Taxon ◽  
Leaf Remains ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
East Prussia

The creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI 2014 onwards, Doweld 2015) with listing of all fossil plant, algal and fungal species reveals the homonymy between fossil-species belonging to genus Elaeocarpus Linnaeus (1753: 515). The fossil-species Elaeocarpus microphyllus Budantsev & Sveshnikova (1964: 102) was described based on the leaf remains from the Tertiary (Oligocene) sediments near Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region, Russian Federation (former East Prussia). However, Elmer (1911) and independently Warburg (1922), proposed the earlier homonyms Elaeocarpus microphyllus Elmer (1911: 1189) and E. microphyllus Warburg (1922: 328) respectively, which were overlooked. According to Art. 53.1 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012), a junior fossil homonym, Elaeocarpus microphyllus Budants. & Sveshn. is illegitimate and hence a new name is proposed here. A new nomenclatural act was registered through a pilot registration version in the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI 2014 onwards), with unique persistent registration barcode (LSID) listed under each newly proposed fossil plant taxon.

Fossil flowers and leaves of the Ebenaceae from the Eocene of southern Australia

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 1825-1843 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Basinger ◽  
David C. Christophel
Keyword(s):  
Guard Cells ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
Fossil Leaves ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Late Tertiary ◽  
The Family ◽  
Fossil Flowers ◽  
Subsidiary Cells ◽  
Clay Lenses ◽  
Coal Measures

Numerous flowers and a diverse assemblage of leaves are mummified in clay lenses in the base of the Demons Bluff Formation overlying the Eastern View Coal Measures. Fossil localities occur in the Alcoa of Australia open cut near Anglesea, Victoria, Australia. Flowers are tubular, less than 10 mm long, and about 5 mm wide. Four sepals are connate forming a cup-shaped calyx. Four petals are fused in their basal third and alternate with sepals. Flowers are all unisexual and staminate. Stamens are epipetalous and consistently 16 in number, arranged in 8 radial pairs. Pollen is subprolate, tricolporate, and about 32 μm in diameter. The exine is smooth to slightly scabrate. A rudimentary ovary occurs in some flowers. Sepals usually have a somewhat textureless abaxial cuticle with actinocytic stomata. Some sepals, however, have frill-like cuticular thickenings over some abaxial epidermal cells and some subsidiary cells with pronounced papillae overarching guard cells. One of the more common leaf types found associated with the flowers is characterized by the same peculiar cuticular thickenings and overarching papillae on subsidiary cells that occur on sepals. This cuticular similarity indicates that flowers and leaves represent a single taxon. Leaves are highly variable in size and shape but are consistently entire margined, with pinnate, brochidodromous venation. The suite of features characterizing the flowers is unique to the Ebenaceae. Flowers of many extant species of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) closely resemble the fossil flowers. Fossil leaves, too, are typical of leaves of extant Diospyros. Both flowers and leaves are considered conspecific and have been assigned the name Austrodiospyros cryptostoma gen. et sp. nov. The Anglesea fossils represent one of the earliest well-documented occurrences of the Ebenaceae and are the earliest known remains of Ebenaceae from Australia. They support the hypothesis of a Gondwanan origin for the family with late Tertiary diversification in the Malesian region.

Palaeoflora Europaea: Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes I. New names of fossil magnoliophytes of the European Tertiary. I. Miscellaneous families

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 379 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER B. DOWELD
Keyword(s):  
New Combinations ◽  
New Name ◽  
Fossil Leaves ◽  
Ligustrum Vulgare ◽  
First Time

The Palaeoflora Europaea Project required new names to be proposed and validated for 28 fossil taxa referable to 16 miscellaneous angiosperm families of the European Tertiary. Aniba caucasica nom. nov. is proposed instead of Aniba longifolia Kolakovsky & Schakryl (fossil) non Aniba longifolia Schwacke & Mez (extant). Ocotea undulatoides nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Ocotea undulata (Weyland & Kilpper) Uzunova & Stojanova (fossil) non Ocotea undulata (Meisner) Mez (extant), Ocotea alaris nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Ocotea alata van der Werff (extant) non Ocotea alata Givulescu (fossil). Clerodendrum sarmatiacum nom. nov. instead of Clerodendrum ovalifolium Baikovskaja (fossil) non C. ovalifolium Gray and C. ovalifolium (Jussieu) Bakhuizen (extant); Persea vanderwerffii nom. nov. instead of Persea fluviatilis van der Werff (extant) non P. fluviatilis Mai (fossil); Euphorbia pontiana nom. nov. in place of Euphorbia cylindrica Negru (fossil) non Euphorbia cylindrica Marloth ex A.C.White, R.A.Dyer & B.Sloane (extant); Malus antiqua nom. nov. instead of Malus pulcherrima Givulescu (fossil) non M. pulcherrima (Ascherson & Graebner) Boynton (extant); Meliosma antiqua nom. nov. instead of Meliosma reticulata (Reid & Reid) M.Chandler (fossil) non M. reticulata Merrill (extant); Nyssa givulescui nom. nov. instead of Nyssa maxima Givulescu, Petrescu & Barbu (fossil) non Nyssa maxima Weber (fossil). Pistacia acuminata Reid & Reid (fossil fruits) is replaced by a new name Pistacia pliolentiscus nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym P. acuminata Boissier & Buhse (extant); Pistacia miolentiscus nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Pistacia lentiscoides Andreánszky & Cziffery (fossil leaves) non Pistacia lentiscoides Unger (fossil leaves); Sterculia maoana nom. nov. instead of Sterculia cinnamomifolia Tsai & Mao (extant) non S. cinnamomifolia Engelhardt (fossil) and Sterculia acerina nom. nov. instead of Sterculia crassinervia (Ettingshausen) Prochaìzka & Bůžek (fossil) non S. crassinervia Miquel (extant); Ranunculus eoreptans nom. nov. in place of Ranunculus pusillus P.I. Dorofeev (fossil) non R. pusillus Poiret, R. pusillus Ledebour and R. pusillus Pomel (extant); Rhododendron maii nom. nov. is proposed instead of Rhododendron germanicum Mai & Walther (fossil) non Rhododendron germanicum Hoppe (extant). Viburnum pliolantana nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Viburnum lantanoides P.I. Dorofeev (fossil) non Viburnum lantanoides Michaux and Viburnum lantanoides Miquel (extant). Zanthoxylum affine Pilar (fossil leaves) is replaced by a new name Zanthoxylum pilari nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym Z. affine Kunth (extant); Zanthoxylum tethyca nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Z. rugosum (Chandler) Palamarev (fossil fruits) non Z. rugosum Saint-Hilaire & Tulasne (extant) and Z. rugosum Negru (fossil fruits). Sambucus sarmatiaca sp. nov. and Photinia sarmatiaca sp. nov. are validated instead of the previously invalidly published Baikovskaja’s fossil taxa lacking holotype designation when published. Lycopus europleistocenicus sp. nov. is validated instead of the invalidly published Lycopus intermedius Dorofeev (lacking holotype designation when published) and renamed because of the earlier homonym Lycopus intermedius Haussknecht (extant). Hibiscus sarmatiacus sp. nov. is validated instead of the invalid Hibiscus splendens Baikovskaja (lacking holotype designation when published) and renamed because of the earlier homonym Hibiscus splendens Graham (extant). Ligustrum miovulgare sp. nov. is proposed to replace invalid Ligustrum vulgare var. fossilis (lacking holotype designation when published). New combinations are validated: Cornus caroli comb. nov. (since formerly used generic designation Cynoxylon is nomenclaturally superfluous), Mahonia sphenophylla comb. nov. (to replace nomenclaturally superfluous Mahonia aspera), Toxicodendron melaenum comb. nov. (to replace invalid Toxicodendron herthae). New additional combinations are made: Aniba aniboides comb. nov.; Damburneya euxina comb. nov.; Exbucklandia germanica comb. nov.; Ocotea pithyusa comb. nov., Ocotea pontica comb. nov. Furthermore Juglans melaena is neotypified for the first time.

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