Medicago minima

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Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. (1776)

basionyme :

• Medicago polymorpha L. var. minima L. (1753)

synonyme :

• Medicago minima (L.) L. (1754), nom. inval. : Grufb. in L., Fl. angl. 21.

Il n'y a pas consensus sur la citation de l'auteur de la combinaison. GRIN et IPNI acceptent (L.) Bartal., alors que Plant List, BD des plantes d'Afrique, Flora Gallica et Euro+Med acceptent (L.) L. Les arguments sont résumés par The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project, qui adopte (L.) Bartal. :

Shinners (in Rhodora 58: 3. 1956) questioned whether the recombination of var. minima at species rank was made by Linnaeus (in Fl. Anglica: 21. 1954). Shinners suggested that this is an error of interpretation, as Linnaeus subsequently continued to treat the taxon as a variety of M. polymorpha. Shinners accepted Bartalini (1776) as the first to make the combination at species rank, as did Stearn (Introd. Ray's Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 57. 1973). Greuter (in Candollea 44: 563. 1989) disagreed, arguing that the combination dates from 1754. Brummitt & Meikle (in Watsonia 19: 181-183. 1993) argued, however, that there are typographical variants of the thesis which make it unreasonable to interpret names such as this (though they focussed particularly on two names in Primula) as a new combination.

Dans la seconde édition du Species plantarum (1763, tome 2, 1099), Linné continue à traiter ce taxon comme var. minima.

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