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 nemorea Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1337. 1759.

RCN: 8118a.

Replaced synonym of: Jungermannia nemorosa L. (1763) .

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 J. nemorosa L. (1763) as a superfluous name for J. nemorea , 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) present evidence that “nemorea” is not a variant of “nemorosa”. Although Grolle (in Feddes Repert. 87: 233. 1976) designated a Haller specimen in Herb. Dillenius (OXF, iso- H-SOL) as the lectotype, this material was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for this name. However, in the absence of any original material at all, Grolles choice is accepted as a neotypification (Art. 9.8).