Proposal (32) to conserve the name Agrostion castellanae with a conserved type

By

Terzi, Massimo
Fernández-González, Federico
Di Pietro, Romeo
Theurillat, Jean-Paul

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-7-7

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

4

Pages

127--130

Subjects

Agrostion castellanae , conserved name , conserved type , Iberian Peninsula , Mediterranean grasslands , Nomenclature , Phytosociology

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.105269

 

Abstract

The alliance name Agrostion castellanae has been widely used for nearly sixty years to indicate a type of acidophilic perennial grasslands occurring in the Iberian Peninsula. At present, the alliance is classified in the order Agrostietalia castellanae, and the class Stipo giganteae-Agrostietea castellanae. However, the nomenclatural type (lectotype) of the Agrostion castellanae is a therophytic grassland, namely the association Holco setiglumis-Anthoxanthetum aristati, that was consistently classified for two decades by Iberian authors within the therophytic class Helianthemetea guttati. In order to preserve the name Agrostion castellanae in its current use, we propose to designate the association Festuco amplae-Agrostietum castellanae as the conserved type of the alliance.<br> (32) Agrostion castellanaeRivas Goday 1958 corr. 1964: 353 nom. cons. propos.<br> Typus: Festuco amplae-Agrostietum castellanae Rivas-Martínez et Belmonte 1986: 418 (typus cons. propos.).<br> (≡) Agrostion castellano-tenuisRivas-Goday 1958: 626 nom. inept.<br> Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2023).<br> Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016).<br> Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016); ICPN = 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).