[Taxacom] Question regarding nomenclature citation of the plant

[Stephen Thorpe]

This is a good example of why standardised form is not as good as a short verbal explanation like
Sesleria bielzii Schur (Previously treated as a subspecies, often cited only as the parent species S. coerulans in the UC literature)
    On Thursday, 23 September 2021, 10:14:58 pm NZST, Andriy Novikov via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 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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