Aralia dubia, V. P. Nikitin, 1976

Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names in Aralia (Araliaceae), living and fossil, Phytotaxa 297 (1), pp. 62-70 : 63

II. Aralia dubia

The fossil species Aralia dubia Nikitin (1976: 186) was established on the fruit endocarps from the Miocene sediments of the famous fossil plant locality Mamontova Gora (Mammuth Hill) at Aldan river in Siberia (Yakutia (Saha) Republic of Russian Federation). It is also a later homonym of extant species A. dubia Sprengel (1827: 125) . Another homonym, A. dubia ( Ettingshausen 1868: 64) ( Schimper 1874: 35) [IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ BF67679B- B6ED-4EF2-AE36-73453BDAE2DE] was published for the fossil leaves from the Miocene of Münzenberg, Wetterau, Hessen, Germany. In addition, one more later homonym A. dubia Fontaine (1889: 314) [IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/ names/ E4F05BFA-8A16-4968-8820-0A8BAA7DAE5A] was also established for the fossil leaves from the Lower Cretaceous (Potomac Group) of Virginia, USA, which was later corrected by a new replacement name A. fontainei Knowlton (1898: 37) [IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ 539FB85E-6A87-41AC-A54F-2259D32F537B]. Since Aralia dubia Nikitin [IFPNI: http://fossilplants.info/names/ 04C8AA82-4A5F-4E75-838D-8B77A893AB56] has no taxonomic synonyms, a replacement name is proposed below in accordance with the requirements of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants ( McNeill & al. 2012):