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Issue: Vol. 424 No. 3: 20 November 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.424.3.3
Page range: 158–166
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 17

Nomenclatural priority of the genus Linochilus over Piofontia (Asteraceae: Astereae)

Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Eudicots Nomenclature priority Astereae Andean

Abstract

Linochilus Bentham (1845) has priority as the correct name for the recently reinstated genus Piofontia Cuatrecasas (1943) segregated from Diplostephium Kunth (1820). A brief taxonomic historical account is provided in order to explain the taxonomic problem. A list of 61 names within Linochilus is given, including 59 new combinations. The 60 combinations recently created for Piofontia are listed as synonyms.