[Taxacom] Question regarding nomenclature citation of the plant

[Andriy Novikov]

Dear colleagues,
I am trying to compile a checklist for endemic plants distributed in the
Ukrainian Carpathians (UC) . And I faced with an issue - I am not sure how
to correctly cite synonym in the next situation:

There is *Sesleria coerulans* Friv. with few infrataxa. However, in the  UC
only one, subsp. *bielzii *(Schur) Gergely & Beldie, occurs. Taking into
considerations that only one taxon is represented in the UC, Ukrainian
botanists always identified all vouchers simply as belonging to *Sesleria
coerulans,* without specification of subspecies. For today, the accepted
name of this taxon is *Sesleria bielzii* Schur. So, all vouchers of
the *Sesleria
coerulans *from the UC correspond to *Sesleria bielzii, *and it appears
that  *Sesleria coerulans* in sens of Ukrainian botanists is, in fact, a
synonym of the *Sesleria bielzii.*

Hence the question - is it correct to cite it as
*Sesleria bielzii Schur *(syn. *Sesleria coerulans  *Friv., auct. flora
Ucrain. Carpat.)
OR
*Sesleria bielzii Schur *(syn. *Sesleria coerulans  *Friv. sensu flora
Ucrain. Carpat.)
?

Thank you in advance for your advice!
Best regards, Andriy.


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Research Scientist, Dr.  Andriy Novikov
State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine

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