TWO NEW COMBINATIONS IN TRYPHANE (ALSINACEAE)

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by  W A Weber

TWO NEW
COMBINATIONS TRYPHANE
IN (ALSINACEAE)
Weber
and Wittmann
W.A.
R.C.
Askell and Doris Love Minuo
(1976) treated
and
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their
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numbers, and made new
provided key
a useful to the genera, but while they combinations
and making
in Alsinanthe, Porsildia, Lidia, they evidently neglected any in Tryphane, genus proposed by
a
&
We
Reichenbach
adopted (Weber Wittmann
(1841). three of these genera in the Colorado Flora 2001) and
followed the nomenclature given Love
as in
(1983).
In his Icelandic flora A. Love (1983: 194) used the combination Tryphane
rubella, attributing the au-
&
He
thorship Reichenbach. name
to also listed a subspecies propinqua (Richardson) Love Love. Neither
appears to have been published hitherto. Search as we might in his bibliography (Weber we have
1995),
been made
not wherein and As
able to find a place Askell Doris the combinations. Askell "Even
often
said,
nodded."
Jove
Rabeler (2005) without discussion, Tryphane (Wahlenberg) Reichenbach synonym
et al. cite, rubella as a
We
of Minuartia rubella (Wahlenberg) Hiern. agree that the various and subspecies mentioned
varieties
as
synonyms
are
trivial.
To we
resolve this problem and use the names, propose them
to validate as follows:
&
Tryphane WA.
rubella (Wahlenb.) A. D. Love ex Weber. comb.
nov.
Basionym: Alsine rubella Wahlenb., Flora Lapp.
,
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3(2)
&
Tryphane propinqua Love
rubella subsp. (Richardson) A. D.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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draft of the paper.
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Love, A. 983. Iceland's flora. Reykjavik.
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Cytotaxonomic of the Cramer, Vaduz.
and 975. atlas arctic flora.
Love, A. D. Love. J.
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Reichenbach, (H.G.) Ludwig. Flora
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