Palaeoflora Europaea: Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes I. New names of fossil magnoliophytes of the European Tertiary. I. Miscellaneous families

摘要

The Palaeoflora Europaea Project required new names to be proposed and validated for 28 fossil taxa referable to 16 miscellaneous angiosperm families of the European Tertiary. Aniba caucasica nom. nov. is proposed instead of Aniba longifolia Kolakovsky & Schakryl (fossil) non Aniba longifolia Schwacke & Mez (extant). Ocotea undulatoides nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Ocotea undulata (Wey land & Kilpper) Uzunova & Stojanova (fossil) non Ocotea undulata (Wisner) Mez (extant), Ocotea alaris nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Ocotea alata van der Werff (extant) non Ocotea alata Givulescu (fossil). Clerodendrum sarmatiacum nom. nov. instead of Clerodendrum ovalifilium Baikovskaja (fossil) non C. ovalifolium Gray and C. ovalifolium (Jussieu) Bakhuizen (extant); Persea vanderwerffli nom. nov. instead of Persea fluviatilis van der Werff (extant) non P. fluviatilis Mai (fossil); Euphorbia pontiana nom. nov. in place of Euphorbia cylindrica Negru (fossil) non Euphorbia cvlindrica Marloth cx A.C.White, R.A.Dyer & B. Sloane (extant); Malus antiqua nom. nov. instead of Malus pulcherrima Givulescu (fossil) non M. pulcherrima (Ascherson & Graebner) Boynton (extant); Meliosma antiqua nom. nov. instead of Meliosma reticulata (Reid & Reid) M. Chandler (fossil) non M. reticulata Merrill (extant); Nyssa givulescui nom. nov. instead of Nyssa maxima Givulescu, Petrescu & Barbu (fossil) non Nyssa maxima Weber (fossil). Pistacia acuminata Reid & Reid (fossil fruits) is replaced by a new name Pistacia pliolentiscus nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym P. acuminata Boissier & Buhse (extant); Pistacia miolentiscus nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym Pistacia lentiscoides Andreanszky & Cziffery (fossil leaves) non Pistacia lentiscoides Unger (fossil leaves); Sterculia maoana nom. nov. instead of Sterculia cinnamomifirlia Tsai & Mao (extant) non S cinnamomifilia Engelhardt (fossil) and Sterculia acerina nom. nov. instead of Sterculia crassinervia (Ettingshausen) Prochaizka & Buzek (fossil) non S. crassinervia Miguel (extant); Ranunculus eoreptans nom. nov. in place of Ranunculus pusillus P.I. Dorofecv (fossil) non R. pusillus Poiret, R. pusillus Ledebour and R. pusillus Pomel (extant); Rhododendron maii nom. nov. is proposed instead of Rhododendron germanicum Mai & Walther (fossil) non Rhododendron germanicum Hoppe (extant).