VALIDATION OF KARINIA (CYPERACEAE)

1 Pages·1994·0.58 MB·English

by  A A Reznicek

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NOTES
VALIDATION OF KARINIA (CYPERACEAE)—
been
has called to
It
&
our attention that the name Karinia Reznicek McVaugh, Flora Novo-
may
Dec
Galiciana 13:386. 8 1993, not be validly published because, even
though monotypic, the sole species was not stated in the protologue also to
be the holotype of the generic name.
how name
It is difficult to understand the generic could have any other
mind who would name
type, but for the peace of of those consider the not
name
validly published, the here explicitly typified to this require-
is fulfil
ment
for valid publication, and the combination Karinia mexicana remade
is
now name
that the generic valid.
is
&
McVaugh
Karinia Reznicek
—
&
A. A. Reznicek R. McVaugh, University Michigan Herbarium, North
of
Ml
Ann
Umversity Building, Arbor, 48109, U.S.A.
NEW
PENSTEMON THURBERI (SCROPHULARIACEAE) TO
TEXAS
Penstemon thurberi Torr. scoparius A. Nels., Leiostemon thurberi
(P.
woody
Greene, ambiguus var. thurberi Gray) a perennial distributed from
P. is
New
Southern California through Arizona Southcentral Mexico and
to
New
Northern Mexico. In Mexico, found in the southwestern counties
it is
Dona Ana
east to and Lincoln counties (Martin and Hutchins 1981). This
the report of thurberi in Texas, a range extension of approximately
is first P.
km New
known Dona Ana
320 from Mexico,
the nearest site in county, to
Mayo
the two populations on the slopes of Little Pinto Canyon and Cinco de
The
Canyon Mountains two
in the Chinati of Presidio county, Texas.
km
populations, approximately 2 apart, one with about 150 specimens and
the other with about 300, are in loose sandy shale, surrounded by plants
Chihuahuan
typical of the Desert grassland.
TEXAS. Aug
Collection data are: Presidio Co.: Little Pinto Canyon, "^armck 121, 9
1988
(Fig.
1).
—
Barton H. Warnock, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Sul Ross State
TX
Mac
Box
Umversity, P.O. 158, Alpine, 79851, U.S.A.; John Carpenter,
TX
Native Plant Society of Texas, P.O. Drawer 430, Ft. Stockton, 79735-0430,
U.S.A.