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Long-lost WWII plant specimen fixes a sedge naming error

OpenAlex · 2026-07-23

Botanists rediscovered a plant specimen believed lost since World War II and used it to fix a decades-old naming mistake in a group of wetland sedges called spikerushes.

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Type specimen of Eleocharis lehmanniana, presumed destroyed during World War II, was rediscovered

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Eleocharis glazioviana and E. lehmanniana were incorrectly synonymized under E. maculosa and are now transferred to E. debilis

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A neotype (replacement reference specimen) was formally designated for E. debilis

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