The difficulties of taxonomic attribution at the end of 19th Century: Saxifraga hervieri as a case study

By Neus Nualart, Museu Ciències Naturals Barcelona (Institut Botànic de Barcelona) In our paper on Pourret’s names based on Salvador’s herbarium (Gavioli et al., 2024), we discussed the challenges of naming taxa in the 18th century, largely due to the limited number of published taxa and the rarely available taxonomic studies by contemporary authors. Although some of these issues appeared to be solved by the 19th century, difficulties in taxonomic naming still occasionally persisted, as illu...