Correction to Hepper and Friis's analysis of Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica: Nepeta nepetellae Forssk. (Lamiaceae)

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    Abstract

    The name Nepeta nepetellae has been accepted in Carl Christensen’s standard index to Forsskål’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica, listed in Index Kewensis and IPNI, listed as an accepted name in The Plant List and accepted in Hepper and Friis’s
    revision of the plants of Forsskål’s Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. If accepted, N. nepetellae may threaten names in current use in Arabia and Africa. However, the name is so similar to the earlier N. nepetella L. that the two names are likely to be confused. Nepeta nepetellae is rejected as a later illegitimate homonym of N. nepetella, which will remove the threat to the currently used names and clarify a complex nomenclatural situation, which has confused several previous authors on the subject. The meanings of asterisked names in Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica and their bearing for N. nepetellae are briefly reviewed.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalTaxon
    Volume63
    Issue number6
    Pages (from-to)1350-1352
    Number of pages3
    ISSN0040-0262
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Faculty of Science

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