Proposal to conserve the name Webera tenuifolia (Pohlia tenuifolia) against Bryum humile (P. humilis) (Bryophyta).

• Published in: TAXON
• Main Author: Suarez, Guillermo Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Association for Plant Taxonomy
• Subjects: BRYOPHYTA; BRYUM; POHLIA; WEBERA; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Greene; Tucumán; McNeill; Suarez; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/77523

In the framework of a revision of the neotropical members of the genus Pohlia, we found that Pohlia humilis (Mont) Broth. (in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(3*): 549. 1903), a neglected species from Chile is synonymous with P. tenuifolia, and its basionym, Bryum humile, predates Webera ten...