Ilex myricina Doweld, 2022

Doweld, Alexander B., 2022, New names of Ilex and Ilexpollenites (Aquifoliaceae), extant and fossil: Addendum Notulae Systematicae ad Palaeofloram Europaeam spectantes II. Aquifoliaceae, Phytotaxa 531 (2), pp. 143-146 : 144

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.531.2.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5873893
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EB87C5-2735-7A7A-6EE9-3EE2FDD27718
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ilex myricina Doweld
status	nom. nov.

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Ilex myricina Doweld , nom. nov.

≡ Ilex myricoides Massalongo (1858: 110) View in CoL non Ilex myricoides Kunth (1824: 71) View in CoL .

Type:—[ fossil leaves] ITALY. Senigallia, Marche region, province of Ancona (holotype, not found [lost]) .

Eponymy:—From Myrica L.

Occurrence:—Upper Miocene (Messinian); Europe.

IFPNI: 11B0D654-7DF3-A192-32AD-54A92B72DBB5.

Notes:—The fossil-species Ilex myricoides Massalongo (1858) was based on the fossil leaves from the Upper Miocene (Messinian) of Italy. However, it is a later homonym of the extant Ilex myricoides Kunth (1824) . Therefore, a new replacement name is validated for the fossil-species.