- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30073109-2
- Publication
- Flora Brasiliensis
- Collation
- 1(2): 119
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Selaginellaceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. illeg. nom. superfl.
Remarks
Spring published S. apus (a noun epithet) and based it on Lycopodium apodum L.; Morton (Amer. Fern J. 57: 104-106. 1964) corrected S. apus to ‘S. apoda’ (an adjectival feminine epithet) and credited the new combination to Spring (l.c.). However, Morton's correction is inadmissible; ‘… consequently S. apus was nomenclaturally superfluous when published and is illegitimate’ (see Shenzhen Code Art. 61 Ex. 2)
Links
- Replaced synonym
- Lycopodium apodum L., Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] 2: 1105 (1753).
- Same citation as
- Selaginella apus Spring, Flora Brasiliensis (1840).