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Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér.
GERANIACEAE
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Information from the Index of California Plant Names (ICPN)
Initial Editorial Analysis Nov 1 2001
Source of Report for California The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
Initial Editorial Comments author citation uncertain, (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton in Kartesz & Meacham, Rosatti notes; (L.) Willd. in International Plant Names Index-APNI; (L.) L'Hér. in IPNI-Index Kewensis
Editorial Recommendation author citation to be checked [protologue still to be checked; resolved]
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 27 Oct 2006 e-mail from Jeff Greenhouse see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates that, according to TROPICOS, the correct citation for Erodium malacoides is (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton (Hortus Kewensis 2:415. 1789) and the Willdenow publication (Phytographia 11. 1794) was an isonym [isonyms are orthographically identical names, based on the same type, but published by different authors; a later isonym has no nomenclatural status according to ICPN (2000, St. Louis Code, Art. 6.3, Note 1., evidently in response to a proposal by Veldkamp & Sosef in 1998 Taxon 47:491-492)], and that it is likely that the same arguments supporting (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton as the author citation for Erodium cicutarium and Erodium moschatum also apply in this case (the first edition of Hortus Kewensis is not available in the UCB library and therefore was not examined). [The protologue should be consulted to verify this citation (ed. 2, but not ed. 1, is held by the Jepson Herbarium Library), but for now at least author citation changed (probably corrected) to Erodium malachoides (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton, from Erodium malacoides (L.) Willd. previously in this Index, 27 Oct 2006.]
Correspondence 2 1 Sep 2009 e-mail from Jeff Greenhouse see Comment 2
Editorial Comments 2 Correspondence 2 indicates: that the protologue for Erodium malacoides (Hortus Kewensis 2:415--416. 1789) has been consulted [see Correspondence 1]; that the combination was ascribed [by Aiton, evidently] to L'Heritier, referring to an unpublished L'Heritier monograph; and that Greenhouse was unable to find in either of the 2 volumes of Hortus Kewensis an explicit statement that L'Heritier contributed to the publication. [Therefore, author citation correct as indicated in this Index, 20 Dec 2010.]
Correspondence 3 9 Sep 2020 e-mail from Dave Keil see Comment 3
Editorial Comments 3 Correspondence 3 indicates that treatments in Hortus Kewensis (see above) for Erodium and Pelargonium are absolutely parallel and should be treated in the same way with respect to authorship citations and that it appears to Keil that the argument for L'Héritier [in Aiton], as presented in this Index for Pelargonium, is convincing. [Correspondence 1 (under the following taxa in Pelargonium) indicates: that Pelargonium grossularioides, Pelargonium inquinans, Pelargonium peltatum, Pelargonium vitifolium, and Pelargonium zonale all were published in vol. 2 of William Aiton, Hortus Kewensis (1789) on pages 42, 414, 427, 425, and 424 respectively; that this work is unavailable at UCB, but has been considered in a paper on typification of the genus Pelargonium in Taxon 30:307 (1981) by J.J.A. van der Walt & P.J. Vorster (The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] author), who conclude that L'Héritier's (at the time) unpublished manuscript of Compendium Generalogium "was made available by L'Héritier to Aiton for the purpose of the Hort. Kew., rather than that the information was taken over by Aiton [evidently, without giving credit for the information to L'Héritier], so that the new names or combinations should be ascribed to L'Héritier alone."; and that, therefore, the correct citations are Pelargonium grossularioides (L.) L'Hér., Pelargonium inquinans (L.) L'Hér., Pelargonium peltatum (L.) L'Hér., Pelargonium vitifolium (L.) L'Hér., and Pelargonium zonale (L.) L'Hér., as given for all in this Index. In order for the names in Erodium to be treated in the same way with respect to authorship citations as those in Pelargonium, author citation changed to Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér., from Erodium malacoides (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton previously in this Index, 16 Sep 2020.]
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary retention
Current Status JFP-2, accepted name for taxon naturalized in CA
Current Status Authority The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Erodium
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Erodium

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