Sorting Metasequoia names
Species
on this page ( A = names
approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :
Listing
this species and attempting to collect its synonyms may be regarded as
a pointless exercise but just in case some Paleobotanists or related
colleagues happen to consult this page here is what we found.
M.
asiatica, M. chinensis, M. cuneata, M. disticha, M. europaea, M.
japonica, M. kimurae, M. miocenica , M.
nathorstii, M.
onukii, and M.
papillapollenites
are considered synonyms of this "fossil species". From my point of view
I find it difficult to comprehend because no authority name could be
found for any of them except two. Given that the "relatively newly
discovered" M. honshuensis is from Japan I could easily foresee a
taxonomist of the future placing M. japonica among the synonyms of M.
honshuensis or vice versa. Information being still sparse on all these
mostly fossil species we will carry on the general wisdom in 2010: that
there is mostly one single living species in this genus Metasequoia
glyptostroboides Hu &
W.C. Cheng, with one aspiring Metasequoia honshuenensis Silba &
Callahan, pending further studies and discoveries in the field.
Two other species M. foxii and
M. milleri have been mentioned
but again they do not carry any authority name and very little
information about them is available.
Date created: 03 / 02 / 2010
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