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Issue: Vol. 224 No. 1: 26 August 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.224.1.7
Page range: 96–99
Abstract views: 17
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Cercis usnadzei, a new replacement name for Cercis kryshtofovichii Usnadze (fossil Fabaceae)

State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Central Eurasia Cercis usnadzei nom. nov. leaf fossil Fabaceae nomenclature Eudicots

Abstract

A new replacement name, i.e., Cercis usnadzei Y.X.Lin & W.O.Wong, nom. nov. (fossil Fabaceae), is proposed here to supersede the later homonym C. kryshtofovichii Usnadze (1971) of C. kryshtofovichii Kornilova (1960). C. usnadzei should be only used for the leaf fossils, which have been reported from the late Oligocene to middle Miocene of Central Eurasia. An emended description of C. usnadzei is given here.