Carex leporina L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 370-473 : 387

Carex leporina Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 973. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae pratis udis." RCN: 7063.

Lectotype (Egorova, Sedges Russia: 545. 1999): [icon] " Gr. Cyp. palustre majus spica divisa " in Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. 3: 244, s. 8, t. 12, f. 29. 1699.

Current name: Carex leporina L. ( Cyperaceae ).

Note: Turland (in Taxon 46: 341. 1997) proposed the rejection of C. leporina against C. lachenalii Schkuhr but this was not recommended by the Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 48: 367. 1999) because of uncertainty over its typification. The type proposed by Nelmes (in Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 13: 337. 1948), 1100.19 (LINN), is identifiable as C. lachenalii but Egorova (Sedges Russia: 543. 1999) rejected this type choice on the grounds of conflict with the protologue, and typified the name instead using the cited Morison plate, identifiable with what has been called C. ovalis Good. The Committee for Spermatophyta (in Taxon 54: 1095. 2005) subsequently reconsidered the proposal and, accepting Egorova’s typification, found that rejection as proposed was unnecessary. Carex leporina is therefore the correct name for what has been known as C. ovalis .