Talk:Euphrasia rostkoviana

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That's a synonym of the target, right? How does this have possibilities? 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:48, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I should've retargetted to Euphrasia (I don't remember why I didn't). The synonymy goes the other way; E. rostkoviana may or may not be a synonym of E. officinalis (depending on taxonomic point of view). There should be an article for E. officinalis and E. rostkoviana should perhaps redirect there. There seems to be some confusion in the pharmacological/medical literature regarding the name of the plant used medicinally (the single source in the E. rostkoviana article, and the source for the footnote at E. officinalis in the Euphrasia article are both pharmacological rather than botanical). There's a disconnect between botanical and pharmacological literature that needs sorting out. I'd guess at some point a botanist told a pharmacologist, "what you've got there is E. rostkoviana, not E. officinalis", and that got incorrectly transformed into "all E. officinalis is actually E. rostkoviana" (and I suspect the reality is that several European Euphrasia species are sometimes used in herbal medicine). Plantdrew (talk) 01:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)