Typification of the name Carex muricata var. lamprocarpa Wallr. and its nomenclatural consequences.

Radomír Řepka 1 & Jiří Danihelka 3 2

Affiliations

  1. Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocenology, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Zemědělská 3, CZ-613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  2. Department of Botany, Masaryk University in Brno, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, and Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Poříčí 3b , CZ-603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  3. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Poříčí 3b, CZ-603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Abstract

The name Carex muricata subsp. lamprocarpa “Čelak.” (1879) is frequently used in floras for C. pairae F. W. Schultz when it is treated as a subspecies of C. muricata L. However, the combination C. muricata var. lamprocarpa was published by Wallroth in 1822. The corresponding specimen in Wallroth’s collection in PR, studied by L. Čelakovský and designated here as a lectotype, is C. muricata as it has the characteristic shiny utricles. So the combination C. muricata subsp. pairae (F. W. Schultz) Čelak. (1870) has to be used.

Keywords

Carex pairae, Cyperaceae, D. H. Hoppe, F. W. Wallroth, history of botany, L. Čelakovský, lectotype

How to cite

Řepka R. & Danihelka J. (2005) Typification of the name Carex muricata var. lamprocarpa Wallr. and its nomenclatural consequences. – Preslia 77: 129–136