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IRMNG name detailsAsterophyllites A.T. Brongniart, 1822 †
1079521 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1079521)
unaccepted > unavailable name (nomen rejiciendum)
Genus
fossil only
Not documented
Taxonomic remark nom. rej. vs. Asterophyllites A.T. Brongniart 1828 (nom. cons.) (Index Nominum Genericorum). From Cleal & Thomas, 2018:...
Taxonomic remark nom. rej. vs. Asterophyllites A.T. Brongniart 1828 (nom. cons.) (Index Nominum Genericorum). From Cleal & Thomas, 2018: Brongniart (1822a) initially used this generic name for all fossils leaves that have a single vein and are arranged in whorls around the stem. However, Brongniart seems to have been unaware that there was a pre-existing name for an almost identical genus (although with different types) – Annularia Sternberg, 1821. In the same work, Sternberg had also created a second genus (Schlotheimia Sternberg) for articulated stems with leaf whorls at the nodes. Sternberg (1825) later confused the issue by dividing Schlotheimia into Bornia Sternberg, 1825, and Brukmannia Sternberg, 1825, the former for leaves he regarded as being from trees, the latter for whorls of more slender, rigid leaves that he regarded as coming from herbaceous plants (he illegitimately abandoned his earlier name Schlotheimia). In addition he referred a heterogeneous group of fossil sphenopsids shoots to a genus he named Bechera Sternberg, 1825, but Doweld (2017a) has shown this name to be nomenclaturally superfluous (it also included the type of an existing name of the charophyte genus Gyrogonites Lamark, 1801). All of these generic distinctions are now rejected as taxonomically unhelpful (e.g. Jongmans 1911). Brongniart (1828a) later accepted the original view of Sternberg (1821) that two genera could be distinguished for these leaf whorls, adopting the latter’s Annularia, and illegitimately using his own original name Asterophyllites for Schlotheimia ... Unfortunately, however, the original type of Asterophyllites was now within the circumscription of Annularia. To avoid substantial disruption to palaeobotany (transferring the many Annularia species to Asterophyllites, and the species usually included within Asterophyllites to Schlotheimia) Vogellehner (1967) proposed that Brongniart’s (1828a) nomenclature for these fossils should be conserved and this was included in the Seattle ICBN (Stafleu et al. 1972). [details]
IRMNG (2022). Asterophyllites A.T. Brongniart, 1822 †. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1079521 on 2025-03-25
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Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature] (2007 version). , available online at https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/ing/ [details]
source of synonymy Cleal, C. J.; Thomas, B. A. (2018). Nomenclatural status of the palaeobotanical "artificial taxa" established in Brongniart's 1822 “Classification” paper. <em>Fossil Imprint.</em> 74(1-2): 9-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.2478/if-2018-0001 [details] name verified source Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature] (2007 version). , available online at https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/ing/ [details] extant flag source Farr, E. R.; Zijlstra, G. (eds). (1996-current). Index Nominum Genericorum (ING). A compilation of generic names published for organisms covered by the ICN: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants. [previously: organisms covered by the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature] (2007 version). , available online at https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/ing/ [details] habitat flag source as per family [details] Unreviewed
Nomenclatural status nomen rejiciendum [details]Taxonomic remark nom. rej. vs. Asterophyllites A.T. Brongniart 1828 (nom. cons.) (Index Nominum Genericorum). From Cleal & Thomas, 2018: Brongniart (1822a) initially used this generic name for all fossils leaves that have a single vein and are arranged in whorls around the stem. However, Brongniart seems to have been unaware that there was a pre-existing name for an almost identical genus (although with different types) – Annularia Sternberg, 1821. In the same work, Sternberg had also created a second genus (Schlotheimia Sternberg) for articulated stems with leaf whorls at the nodes. Sternberg (1825) later confused the issue by dividing Schlotheimia into Bornia Sternberg, 1825, and Brukmannia Sternberg, 1825, the former for leaves he regarded as being from trees, the latter for whorls of more slender, rigid leaves that he regarded as coming from herbaceous plants (he illegitimately abandoned his earlier name Schlotheimia). In addition he referred a heterogeneous group of fossil sphenopsids shoots to a genus he named Bechera Sternberg, 1825, but Doweld (2017a) has shown this name to be nomenclaturally superfluous (it also included the type of an existing name of the charophyte genus Gyrogonites Lamark, 1801). All of these generic distinctions are now rejected as taxonomically unhelpful (e.g. Jongmans 1911). Brongniart (1828a) later accepted the original view of Sternberg (1821) that two genera could be distinguished for these leaf whorls, adopting the latter’s Annularia, and illegitimately using his own original name Asterophyllites for Schlotheimia ... Unfortunately, however, the original type of Asterophyllites was now within the circumscription of Annularia. To avoid substantial disruption to palaeobotany (transferring the many Annularia species to Asterophyllites, and the species usually included within Asterophyllites to Schlotheimia) Vogellehner (1967) proposed that Brongniart’s (1828a) nomenclature for these fossils should be conserved and this was included in the Seattle ICBN (Stafleu et al. 1972). [details] |
