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Issue: Vol. 197 No. 1: 4 February 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-02-04
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.197.1.8
Page range: 60–60
Abstract views: 16
PDF downloaded: 11

Daustinia, a replacement name for Austinia (Convolvulaceae)

Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, Recife, PE, 52172-030, Brazil
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Austinia Convolvulaceae Daustinia

Abstract

Buril et al. (2013) transferred a Brazilian species of Jacquemontia Choisy to the new genus Austinia Buril & A.R. Simões, named after Daniel F. Austin (1943–2015 ). However, the name Austinia was already occupied by a genus of a moss family, Fabroniaceae, described in 1875 by Johann Karl August Müller. The later homonym Austinia Buril & A.R. Simões is, therefore, not legitimate according to the Article 53.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (McNeill et al. 2012).