Lectotypification of Carex buekii (Cyperaceae)

Carex buekii Wimmer (1852: 83) is the name currently applied to a species belonging to Carex sect. Phacocystis Dumortier (1827:146) (Cyperaceae) that occurs throughout Central-Eastern Europe to SW Asia (Chater 1980, Egorova 1999, Jiménez-Mejías & Luceño 2011a, 2011b, Koopman 2011). Carex buekii was formally described in 1852 by Wimmer in a communication in the botanical section of the annual report of the Silesian Patriotic Society (Wimmer 1852). Several years later, it was published again as a new species (“nova spec.”) in the 3rd edition of the Flora von Schlesien (Wimmer 1857). Despite Ascherson & Graebner (1902) already noticing the correct publication date as 1852, most recent authors have considered the Flora von Schlesien text as the original protologue (e.g., Chater 1980, Egorova 1999, Jiménez-Mejías & Luceño 2011a). Recently, Soldano (2012) noted this mistake and advised that 1852 was the effective publication date for C. buekii.