(Nummularia Group) (T. Dudley and G. Eisenbeiss, Mitt. Deut. Dendr. 

 Gesel. 70:1 15-132. 1978) - no nomenclatural status; erected for 

 convenience to accommodate the close genetic and morphological 

 relationship of five current cultivars: DWARF PAGODA, GREEN 

 DRAGON, MARIESII, NAKADA, and NUMMULARIA. 



var. nummularia (Franchet & Savatier) Yatabe (R. Yatabe, Bot. Mag. 

 Tokyo 6(63): 157. 1892, without descr.) - rank transfer based on 

 /. nummularia Franchet & Savatier. Named from a plant that was and 

 still is in cult, in Japan. = NUMMULARIA, /. crenata f. nummularia 

 (Franchet & Savatier) Hara; not var. nummularia of Dallimore or Bean, 

 and not /. mariesii Veitch ex Bean, mariesii at any rank, or MARIESII. 



f. nummularia (Franchet & Savatier) Hara (H. Hara, Enumeratio 

 Spermatophytarum Japonicarum Pt. 3. p. 70. 1954, without descr.) - 

 changed rank from var. to f. with syns. of/, nummularia Franchet & 

 Savatier, var. nummularia (Franchet & Savatier) Yatabe, and /. mariesii 

 Veitch ex Bean. As stated in T. Dudley and G. Eisenbeiss, Mitt. Deut. 

 Dendr. Gesel. 70:1 17. 1978, and idem, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 16. 1978, 

 we do not equate the Franchet & Savatier pit. with the Veitch pit., 

 which is MARIESII, because these 2 cultivated plants differ in time 

 and place of origin. The Hara name at forma rank is questionable 

 because the Franchet & Savatier name was based on a pit. of cult, 

 origin. = NUMMULARIA, /. nummularia Franchet & Savatier, var. 

 nummularia (Franchet & Savatier) Yatabe. Not var. nummularia in 

 Dallimord, or NUMMULARIA of many horticultural authors, not 

 /. mariesii Veitch ex Bean, not mariesii at any other bot. ranks, and not 

 MARIESII. 



NUMMULARIA (A. Franchet and L. Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. 2:51 1. 

 1879, as /. nummularia) - shrub with many dwarf cushion-shaped 

 branches that have dense leaf scars; lvs. glabrous, petioles 1-2 mm long, 

 blade obovate or round-edged, 1 cm long and wide, apex 3- or rarely 

 5-dentate, dentations triangular and pointed forward, with those on 

 lateral sides smaller; 3-flowered cyme with floral pedicels 2-3 times 

 longer than the peduncle; similar to /. crenata but differs from it by 

 having denticulate, triangular apical teeth on the leaves. The earliest use 

 of this name at cultivar rank or as a "cultivated variety" is obscure. 

 There have been continuous rank changes from species through cultivar 

 for both names, NUMMULARIA and MARIESII. The synonymy of 

 both names has been seriously mixed. /. mariesii, var. mariesii, and 

 f. mariesii all equate directly to MARIESII. The names /. nummularia, 

 var. nummularia and f. nummularia all equate directly to 

 NUMMULARIA but in the past were incorrectly applied to 

 MARIESII or all of its previous ranks. This complex and confusing 

 synonymy was well established before the rank of cultivar was 

 invented. Sorting of the synonymy of both names was not possible until 

 after clarification of identification. T. Dudley and G. Eisenbeiss, in 



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