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Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth var. caracasana (Kunth) D.N. Gibson
NAMACEAE (as of Revision 9, genus transferred from Boraginaceae; genus previously included in Hydrophyllaceae)
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Information from the Index of California Plant Names (ICPN)
Initial Editorial Analysis 16 Dec 2014
Notes on Authorship of Name all = Authors of Plant Names
Source of Report for California  
a Munz, P.A. 1974. A Flora of Southern California. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
b [for Wigandia caracasana Kunth] Hrusa et al., Madrono 49(2)61-98. 2002: DIST: SCo: Hrusa et al. Current Status: No current information: DOC: Munz, P.A. (1974, pg. 519): NOTES: No evidence for naturalization. Labeled specimens at CDA collected in the locations cited by Munz (1974), state that the plants were cultivated but without mention of spread from root-sprouts or other persistence mechanisms. Because this plant has an extensive root system it is a likely candidate to remain persistent from cultivation and spread locally.
Initial Editorial Comments in no way mentioned in Munz or Munz Supplement (despite Kartesz & Meacham citation); Wigandia caracasana var. macrophylla, indicated in Munz Southern California Flora as occasionally escaped from cult. esp. in Santa Barbara region, listed as synonym of Wigandia urens var. caracasana in Kartesz & Meacham; according to Source b, status uncertain (20 Feb 2003)
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 Treatment and author notes submitted since The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] by Genevieve K. Walden see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates that since The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth is to be recognized, without infraspecific taxa, and treated as naturalized in CA, with Wigandia caracasana Kunth and Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth var. caracasana (Kunth) D.N. Gibson, among others, as syns.
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, to be treated as syn
Current Status JFP-2a, taxonomic or nomenclatural synonym for taxon naturalized in CA
Current Name Wigandia urens (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth
Current Status Authority Jepson Flora Project
Current Status Date 16 Dec 2014
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List of ICPN names in Wigandia urens
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Wigandia

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