Jepson Flora Project: Jepson Interchange for California Floristics    
Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop
ASPARAGACEAE (genus previously included in Liliaceae)
Initial Editorial Analysis 31 Aug 2007
Notes on Authorship of Name both = Authors of Plant Names
Source of Report for California Munz, P.A. 1974. A Flora of Southern California. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
Initial Editorial Comments in no way mentioned in Munz, Munz Supplement, Munz Southern California Flora (despite Kartesz & Meacham citation), The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]; indicated only for California (as questionable), FL in Kartesz & Meacham
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 Treatment and author notes submitted for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] by Dale McNeal. see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates that for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] Asparagus densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop is to be treated as a name that has been misapplied to California pls belonging instead to Asparagus aethiopicus L., and that occur in California only as waifs.
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, misapplied name
Current Status JFP-8, accepted name for taxon not occurring in CA (erroneous reports, misapplication of names, misidentifications, other exclusions)
Current Status Authority The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2]
Current Status Date 31 Aug 2007
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Asparagus
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Asparagus

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