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Carex albonigra Mack.
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CYPERACEAE
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Initial Editorial Analysis
18 Oct 2016 [but should have been made earlier, as the change was made in the eFlora as part of Revision 3, Dec 2015]
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Source of Report for California
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The Jepson Manual [Ed. 1]
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Correspondence and Comments Subsequent to Initial Analysis
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Correspondence 1
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15 Jan 2013 e-mail from Bruce Baldwin, including forward e-mail from Peter Zika, author of Carex in The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] see Comment 1
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Editorial Comments 1
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Correspondence 1 includes citation of a paper by Zika (Novon 22: 118-124. 2012) in which a new species, Carex orestera Zika, is described from central and southern high Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of CA, for plants previously assigned to Carex albonigra Mack., which under the new circumscription come no closer to California "than the San Francisco Mountains of Coconino County, Arizona, 600 km to the east of the White Mountains."
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Correspondence 2
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Treatment and author notes submitted since The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2] see Comment 2
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Editorial Comments 2
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Correspondence 2 indicates that Carex orestera Zika is to be recognized and treated as native to CA, and that Carex albonigra Mack. is excluded from California as a result of the new circumscription.
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Editorial Summary and Current Status
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Editorial Summary
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rejection, for taxon excluded by recircumscription since The Jepson Manual [Ed. 2]
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Current Status
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JFP-8, accepted name for taxon not occurring in CA (erroneous reports, misapplication of names, misidentifications, other exclusions)
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