Erigeron

Discussion of the taxon / Таксоны / Forum

Petrovsky (1987b) synonymized Erigeron muirii, E. koraginensis, and E. komarovii under the first-mentioned name and reported it from three quite distant parts of northern Russia: Polar Ural, the lower Lena River area, and from all over the Russian Far East from the Anyui Mountains east to East Chukotka, south to northern Kamtchatka and north to Wrangel Island. His merger was based on Hultén's (1968a, 1968b) description of E. muirii, which in its turn was based on a mixture of E. muirii s. str. from the Brooks Range and E. porsildii from the Arctic Coast. Hultén's concept was, accordingly, not very specific. Petrovsky (in comment) now excludes E. muirii from northeastern Asia.

The names Erigeron koraginensis and E. komarovii were proposed in 1954 on the same page of publication. Erigeron komarovii was a replacement name for the later homonym E. consanguineus (1938), which was based on Aster consanguineus (1845); E. koraginensis was based on Aster koraginensis (1930). We follow the observations of Dr. Kanchi Gandhi (pers. comm.) in recognizing the priority of E. koraginensis if E. komarovii and E. koraginensis are combined: “Although the priority of the type of E. komarovii starts from 1845, the priority of the epithet itself starts from 1954. In contrast, the priority of the type and of the epithet in E. koraginensis start from 1930.”