Spiraea dumosa Nutt. ex A.Gray

, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts 4: 40 (1849), nom. illeg. BHL
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IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1104965-2
Publication
Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Collation
4: 40
Date of Publication
10 Feb 1849
Family as entered in IPNI
Rosaceae

Type Information

Distribution Of Types
United States of America (Northern America)

Nomenclatural Notes

Status: nom. illeg. later homonym non S. dumosa Nutt. ex Hook. (1847).

Remarks

A. Gray used: S. Dumosa, Nutt! Mss.; Hook. Land. Jour. Bot. 6. p. 217. ... This is the S. discolor of Torrey in Ann. Lye. New York (James's Collection), and a good species; but the original S. discolor, Pursh, I believe to be only S. ariaefolia; as certainly is a plant of Menzies so named by Pursh in Herb. Lambert. S. dumosa Nutt. ex Hook. (1847) is an illegitimate superfluous name for S. discolor Pursh (1813). Since A. Gray used S. dumosa Nutt. ex Hook., but excluded its illegitimacy causing synonymy (i.e., S. discolor Pursh), he created a later homonym (see Vienna Code Art. 48.1).