Carpinus mollicoma Hu, 1949

Holstein, Norbert & Weigend, Maximilian, 2017, No taxon left behind? - a critical taxonomic checklist of Carpinus and Ostrya (Coryloideae, Betulaceae), European Journal of Taxonomy 375, pp. 1-52 : 19

24. Carpinus mollicoma Hu

Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology n.s. 1 (3): 216 ( Hu 1949). – C. polyneura var. mollicoma (Hu) C.C.Yang , Distribution of the Woody Plants in Sichuan [四川树木,布]: 42 ( Yang 1997). – Type: China, Yunnan, Xichou, Faa-doou, 25 Sep. 1947, K.M. Feng 12053 (lecto-, designated here: PE00021946!; isolecto-: IBSC0368097, PE00818159!). – Note: Carpinus mollicoma is accepted in the Flora of China ( Li & Skvortsov 1999) and the World Checklist ( Govaerts & Frodin 1998). Yang in Flora Sichuanica (Editorial Board of the Flora Sichuanica 2012: 35) notes that his combination C. polyneura var. mollicoma (Hu) C.C.Yang is a nom. nud. [comb. inval.?] in the 1997 publication, but he treats it as a distinct variety in C. polyneura in 2012. If there was no reference to the basionym in the cited reference, then the new combination was published in 2012.