Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 51. Validation of Schistochilopsis hyperarctica (Scapaniaceae, Marchantiophyta)

• Main Authors: Nadezda A. Konstantinova, Lars Söderström, Anders Hagborg, Matt Von Konrat
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; McNeill
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.636.8957; http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2014/f/pt00162p240.pdf

*Author for correspondence Lophozia hyperarctica (Schuster 1961: 967) was described from Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic. However, the author stated that the species occurred in very small patches and made a collection of them in a small area, but giving every small collection a separate collection number, thus making several gatherings out of them. When describing the species he used 5 differently numbered gatherings stating “these five collections extremely skimpy, coming from the same locality and to be considered the collective representing the type ” thus violating ICN Art. 41.2 (McNeill et al. 2012). This mistake was overlooked when transferring the taxon to Massula hyperarctica