Scapania nemorea (L.) Grolle

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part J), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 599-607 : 603

Jungermannia nemorosa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1598. 1763, nom. illeg.

"Habitat in Europae sylvis." RCN: 8118a.

Replaced synonym: Jungermannia nemorea L. (1759) .

Neotype (Grolle in Feddes Repert. 87: 233. 1976): Haller in Herb. Dillenius ( OXF; iso- H-SOL) .

Current name: Scapania nemorea (L.) Grolle ( Scapaniaceae ).

Note: Grolle (in Revue Bryol. Lichénol., n.s., 32: 160. 1963) and Isoviita (in Acta Bot. Fenn. 89: 18. 1970) both treated this as a superfluous name for J. nemorea (1759) while Stotler & Zehr (in Taxon 29: 493. 1980) argued that “nemorea” in 1759 is an orthographic error, corrected to “nemorosa” in 1763. However, Grolle & Isoviita (in Ann. Bot. Fenn. 18: 83. 1981) presented evidence that “nemorea” is not a variant of “nemorosa”, and the latter is therefore treated as illegitimate. Although Bonner ( Index Hepaticarum 8: 247. 1976) treated a Dillenius figure as the type, this element was not cited in the protologue of J. nemorea and so is not original material for either name.