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Showing Goodenia claytoniacea

Goodeniaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Goodeniaceae(fam.)
Goodenia(gen.)
claytoniacea(sp.)

Goodenia claytoniacea F.Muell. ex Benth.

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Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

[tax. nov.]

Type: "W.Australia, Drummond, 1st Coll. n.42, also n.159, 406; swampy flats, Don river, Maxwell."

misapplication: Goodenia tenella R.Br. nom. illeg. by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(14)

: 111

Comment: The correct spelling and attribution for this species is complicated. The following was provided by Paul Wilson (pers. comm. 2006): "Bentham (1868) used the spelling "Laytoniana", taken from a Mueller specimen label. Mueller (1882) in his Census adopted the spelling "claytoniacea" with a reference to Bentham but without an explanation. This latter spelling was also adopted by Mueller in his Second Census (1889) and by Gardner (1931) in his Enum. Pl. Austral. Occ. where he correctly attributed the name to Mueller (1882) and gave G. Laytoniana as a synonym thus making Mueller's name illegitimate. Carolin (1990) adopted the spelling "claytoniacea" and explained that Bentham's spelling was an orthographic error. Chapman (1991), APNI: 1443, did not accept the name G. claytoniacea F.Muell. and stated that it is "an orthographic variant or an erroneous spelling of "laytoniana". Leigh Sage has examined the type and has confirmed that Bentham misinterpreted Mueller's handwriting." Three solutions are possible: 1. a case could be made to conserve the spelling claytoniacea against laytoniana; 2. accept Bentham's original spelling, with G. claytoniacea in synonymy as an illegitimate name; or 3. accept that Bentham made an inadvertent orthographic error in spelling because he couldn't read Mueller's handwriting, and this was subsequently corrected without comment by Mueller. The third is the simplest solution and preserves current usage, as per Carolin (1990, 1992). It is adopted here.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

157, 158

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Goodeniaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

631-632

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes and new taxa in the genus Goodenia (Goodeniaceae).

Telopea

3(4)

539

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Swampy flats of Don River, Maxwell (K). ISOLECTOTYPE: MEL."

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Goodenia.

Flora of Australia

181, map 216

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Goodenia laytoniana Benth.

orth. var.

misapplication: Goodenia tenella R.Br. nom. illeg. by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(14)

: 111

APC Dist.: WA

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

629

[secondary reference]

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