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Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L.
CONVOLVULACEAE (genus previously included in Cuscutaceae)
Initial Editorial Analysis 20 Nov 2006
Source of Report for California Munz, P.A. in collaboration with D. D. Keck. 1968, as cited in Kartesz & Meacham
Initial Editorial Comments as Cuscuta epithymum Murray, treated as synonym of Cuscuta approximata in The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]; Cuscuta epithymum not in Gray Card Index; author citation uncertain, Cuscuta epithymum Murray in The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
Editorial Recommendation author citation to be checked [resolved]
Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
Correspondence 1 Treatment and author notes submitted for The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] by Mihai Costea see Comment 1
Editorial Comments 1 Correspondence 1 indicates (citing Garcia & Cafferty 2005 Taxon 54: 477-478) that a compelling case has been made by Stearn that Linnaeus did not intend to elevate Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum, published by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum (1753), to specific rank in Amoenitas Academicae (1759a), in part because he continued to treat the taxon as Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum in Systema Naturae (Linnaeus, 1759b) and the second edition of Species Plantarum (1762), but that Greuter (1989), while agreeing with Stearn on the matter of intent on the part of Linnaeus, stated that according to the Code that was current at the time (1989), the combination Cuscuta epithymum nevertheless was validly published by Linnaeus in Amoenitas Academicae. Correspondence 1 also indicates that Yuncker incorrectly attributed the combination at the rank of species to Murray, and that while Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. and Cuscuta approximata Bab. are distinct at the level of species, only the latter occurs in CA. [Therefore, author citation correct as indicated in this Index, 20 Nov 2006.]
Editorial Summary and Current Status
Editorial Summary rejection, evidently does not occur in CA.
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 20 Nov 2006
List of names for this Current Status category
List of ICPN names in Cuscuta
List of names from ICPN, Hrusa's Crosswalk, and Jepson Flora in Cuscuta

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