Taxonomic Swap 3988 (Committed on 2013-02-11)

This is kind of debatable, but Jepson considers "Sambucus nigra cerulea" to be a misspelling: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_cpn.pl?Sambucus+nigra+subsp.+caerulea&expand=1, while ITIS and USDA PLANTS think it's the other way around: http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SANIC5 (The Plant List agrees). IPNI is, as usual, cryptic and unhelpful, and Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families is, as usual, too selective to be useful here. I suspect Jepson is more current than the USDA, so I'm going with that.

Jepson Manual II (Citation)
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Added by kueda on January 30, 2013 12:33 AM | Committed by loarie on February 11, 2013
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There are many other species that have "caerulea" as part of the binomial. Passiflora caerulea, Nymphaea caerulea, Dianella caerulea, Lonicera caerulea, Houstonia caerulea, Litoria caerulea, Egretta caerulea, etc from the latin caerulea.

And from calflora.net
caeru'lea/caeru'leum: blue (ref. Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea, Polemonium caeruleum [now occidentale])
caerules'cens: bluish or tinted with blue

Posted by lynnwatson about 11 years ago

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