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Centaurium namophilum Reveal, Broome, & Beatley
GENTIANACEAE
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Information from the Index of California Plant Names (ICPN)
Initial Editorial Analysis 31 Jan 2007
Notes on Authorship of Name all = Authors of Plant Names except Broome not in Authors of Plant Names, although in accordance with principles in Authors of Plant Names
Notes on Publication of Name Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 100(6): 353 (1974)
Source of Report for California 1999 Federal Register, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
Initial Editorial Comments according to The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1], "CA (not NV) pls that have been considered C. n. [n. probably = namophilum, but then spelling it out after "var." makes it ambiguous] var. namophilum...are apparently all C. exaltatum"
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 $ 8 Feb 2002, from Margriet Wetherwax see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates that, according to a letter from Mark Skinner, the entry for Centaurium namophilum in California Native Plant Society Inventory (ed. 5, 1994) is based on a misidentification of Centaurium exaltatum. [The report cited by Kartesz & Meacham (Federal Register, 1999) remains unaddressed, so retention of a Current Status of tentative 8 is appropriate.]
Correspondence 2 25 Jan 2005 e-mail from Bob Allen see Comment 2
Editorial Comments 2 Correspondence 2 indicates that Centaurium (Gentianaceae) has been split up and the California species placed in Zeltnera, citing Mansion, G. 2004. A new classification of the polyphyletic genus Centaurium Hill (Chironiidae-Gentianaceae): description of the New World endemic Zeltnera, and reinstatement of Gyrandra Griseb. and Schenkia Griseb. Taxon 53: 719-740. [Mansion treats this taxon as Zeltnera namophila (Reveal, Broome, & Beatley) Mansion, but does not indicate it for California (he treats it as endemic to Nye Co., NV), although he does include it in the "Californian group"; James S. Pringle, The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] author, is recognizing Zeltnera, and evidently will exclude this taxon for CA.]
Correspondence 3 Treatment and author notes submitted for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] by James S. Pringle see Comment 3
Editorial Comments 3 Correspondence 3 indicates that for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] Centaurium namophilum Reveal, Broome, & Beatley is to be treated as a synonym of Zeltnera namophila, and that the taxon occurs as a native in CA, in SNE and DMoj.
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, different genus since The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
Current Status JFP-1a, taxonomic or nomenclatural synonym for taxon native to CA
Current Name Zeltnera namophila
Current Status Authority The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2]
Current Status Date 31 Jan 2007
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Centaurium
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Centaurium

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