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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-09-23
Page range: 112–114
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New combinations and a new name for including Nemum species in Bulbostylis (Abildgaardieae: Cyperaceae)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, UK Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Lab, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Lab, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USA
Nomenclature Cyperaceae New combination Monocots

Abstract

A recent study included the genus Nemum into Bulbostylis. The combinations made for Nemum spadiceum and Nemum megastachyum resulted in illegitimate names. Here, the epithet of the homotypic name Scirpus briziformis is used to make nomenclaturally correct combinations for both subspecies of Nemum spadiceum in Bulbostylis. Furthermore, Bulbostylis brunneoacuminata, nomen novum, is proposed to include Nemum megastachyum in Bulbostylis.