Washington Flora Checklist

A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Washington State
Hosted by the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum

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Eriogonum microtheca Nutt.[FNA5, HC, HC2]

slender buckwheat

Publication: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 4: 15. (as microtheca). 1848.

Origin: Native

Herbarium search: CPNWH

Notes: From IPNI:"Nuttall used the epithet "microtheca" as a noun in apposition," and this spelling is, therefore, grammatically correct." Furthermore, an attempt to overturn the original orthography was not recommended by the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants, Applequist, Taxon 63(6): 1368 (2014), nor by the General Committee.

Infraspecies:

var. laxiflorum Hook. [FNA5, HC, HC2]

Great Basin slender buckwheat, Great Basin wild buckwheat

Last updated 10/6/2020 by David Giblin.

Synonyms & Misapplied Names:

Eriogonum microthecum Nutt., orthographic variant