Feedback request: Erigeron acre (814)

[daniel king]

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Specimen #235468

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Erigeron acer L. ("Blue Fleabane")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Erigeron acer L. ("Blue Fleabane")
Collected by:	Dr W E Russell
Collection date:	8/1893
Locality:	Great Britain, VC50 Denbighshire, Old Colwyn, SH87, Limestone nr. Old Colwyn.
Institution:	Shrewsbury School (SHYB)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by daniel king on 20^th July 2007.

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daniel king wrote

Query taxon: IPNI shows no acre, only acris and acer.

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for spotting this. I assumed at first that I'd just mis-transcribed the name from the London Catalogue, but checking, it (both 8th and 9th Edition) lists the name as Acre.

All three names Acer, Acre and Acris are used, I'm not sure which is currently accepted. The confusion comes over the gender of 'Erigeron'

http://www.mentalcode.com/latin/adjectives/view.plx?m=acer&f=acris&n=acre&g=&file=3r

and

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?15506

Kent and Flora Europaea list E. acer
IPNI has acris

I've updated the entry to 'acer' currently, but I'm not certain that it shouldn't be 'acris'.