Alloberberis caeruleomontana Doweld, 2018

Doweld, Alexander B., 2018, New names of fossil Berberidaceae, Phytotaxa 351 (1), pp. 72-80 : 74-75

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.1.6
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87EB-FFDC-9B55-10E6-F88B0A3999E5
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Alloberberis caeruleomontana Doweld
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

Alloberberis caeruleomontana Doweld , nom. nov.

≡ Ilex sinuata Chaney & Axelrod (1959: 190 , pl. 38, fig. 4, 11), nom. illeg. non Ilex sinuata Saporta (1865: 190) .

Type:—[fossil leaves] Blue Mountains, Oregon, USA (holotype, UCMP 3170, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA).

Occurrence:—Miocene; North America ( USA). Eponymy:— Caeruleomontanus, Lat., from Blue Mountains, locus classicus.

IFPNI:— CD233A02-156D-3EF0-1E2D-823D13D21CA9.

Notes:—The fossil-species Ilex sinuata Chaney & Axelrod is based on the anomalous fossil foliage, which was not evidently related to any extant Ilex species. In contrast, the fossil-species has a resemblance to the leaf fossil-species Mahonia lobodonta Becker , which is re-classified here Alloberberis lobodonta comb. nov. Since the fossil-species Ilex sinuata Chaney & Axelrod is a later illegitimate homonym of the European fossil-species Ilex sinuata Saporta , based on the fossil foliage from the Oligocene sediments of Armissan ( France), a new name is proposed here in the genus Alloberberis .