Mahonia sphenophylla (Unger) Doweld, 2018

Doweld, Alexander B., 2018, New names of fossil Berberidaceae, Phytotaxa 351 (1), pp. 72-80 : 76

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.1.6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87EB-FFDA-9B52-10E6-FEBB08B89B68
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Mahonia sphenophylla (Unger) Doweld
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Mahonia sphenophylla (Unger) Doweld , comb. nov.

≡ Ilex sphenophylla Unger (1847: 148, pl. 50, fig. 9 (lower left)). = Quercus aspera Unger View in CoL (1847: 108, pl. 30, fig. 2), nom. illeg. non Quercus aspera Bosc (1807: 328) View in CoL ≡ Quercus sclerophyllina Heer (1855:

54) ≡ Mahonia aspera Kovar-Eder & Kvaček in Kovar-Eder et al. (2004: 57), nom. superfl.— Type: [fossil leaves] Parschlug, Styria,

Austria (lectotype designated by Kovar-Eder et al. 2004: 57, LMJ 76529, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria). Type:—[fossil leaves] Parschlug, Styria, Austria (holotype, LMJ 76515, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria).

Occurrence:—Miocene; Europe.

IFPNI: 77611852-6DEA-8B70-8DA9-BB7F874E5A78.

Notes:—The fossil-species Mahonia aspera Kovar-Eder&Kvaček was incorrectly published as a new combination, being based on the illegitimate homonym, Quercus aspera Unger (1847) non Bosc (1808), used previously for the extant species. However, Mahonia aspera Kovar-Eder & Kvaček is a nomenclaturally superfluous name of the previously published replacement name, Quercus sclerophyllina Heer (1855) . Since Ilex sphenophylla Unger (1847) is the earliest available name for this fossil Mahonia foliage (see Kovar-Eder et al., 2004), having precedence over Quercus sclerophyllina Heer (1855) , it is transferred to Mahonia here.