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Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 23. A new synonym in Anthoceros (Anthocerotaceae, Anthocerotophyta)
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- 1. Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; lars.soderstrom@bio.ntnu.no Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA; hagborg@pobox.com, mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org & Author for correspondence
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Cargill, D. Christine, Söderström, Lars, Hagborg, Anders, Konrat, Matt Von (2013): Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 23. A new synonym in Anthoceros (Anthocerotaceae, Anthocerotophyta). Phytotaxa 76 (3): 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.76.3.11, URL: http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/146
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- Stephani (1916) described two species of Anthoceros Linnaeus (1753: 1139) from Queensland, Australia, but the application of these names has been unclear. Herbarium collections at B, BM, HBG, L, MEL, PC, and W were searched in an attempt to find original material of these taxa. Two packets were found at G in the Stephani herbarium, one bearing the name Anthoceros fragilis (barcode G-61292) and the other lablled Anthoceros fertilis (barcode G-61293). Both annotations were in Stephani's handwriting and the specimens match the descriptions in the protologue.
- The first author studied the G specimens and found they represent to the same taxon. Since the two names have equal priority, Anthoceros fragilis was chosen over Anthoceros fertilis, as the epithet more accurately describes the thallus, which is thinner and more delicate than that in the type species for the genus, Anthoceros punctatus Linnaeus (1753: 1139).