Talk:Pseudolysimachion spicatum

Pseudolysimachion split-off from Veronica, spsicatum vs spicatum mess
Whether we like it or not, botany taxonomies tend to become more complicated and names less easily readable, but we should go with the official taxonomy. I understand that the species Veronica spicata and Veronica maritima were for some reason taken out of the genus Veronica. In the same family Plantaginaceae a new genus Pseudolysimachion was created for the two. Pseudolysimachion contains the species Pseudolysimachion spicatum, L., Opiz and Pseudolysimachion maritimum, L., Á. Löve & D. Löve. Veronica spicata and Veronica maritima may still be listed as aliases, so that the species can be found by their old name. Accordingly in Wikipedia, a URL for Pseudolysimachion spicatum should not be forwarding to Veronica spicata. Instead Veronica spicata should newly be forwarding to Pseudolysimachion spicatum. And yes, it needs to be spicatum and not spsicatum as with the current forwarding URL. Spicatus/spicata/spicatum means furnished with spikes.

The split-off of the new genus Pseudolysimachion from Veronica can be looked up in infoflora.ch: see Pseudolysimachion spicatum (L.) Opiz, [https://www.infoflora.ch/de/flora/pseudolysimachion-maritimum.html#taxonomy Pseudolysimachion maritimum (L.) Á. Löve & D. Löve], Pseudolysimachion, and Veronica which still comprises a huge number of species with only 40 of them discovered in Switzerland.

The pages Veronica (plant) and Plantaginaceae would need to be updated and a new page Pseudolysimachion would be nice to have.


 * As of April 2023, Plants of the World Online keeps the species in Veronica, so we should too, at least for now. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)