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A new species of Eremogone (Caryophyllaceae) from northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, U.S.A.

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A name (Eremogone loisiae) is provided for those plants from northern Utah and southeastern Idaho that have gone under the misapplied name Eremogone kingii subsp. uintahensis. Eremogone loisiae, named in honor of Lois A. Arnow, is distinguished from E. kingii by its longer and narrower, flexuous leaves and its longer sepals, petals, styles, capsules, and seeds.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Beth Corbin for graciously giving up part of her 4 July holiday to locate and collect the type set; Bobbi Angell for the lovely illustration; Patricia Eckel for providing the Latin diagnosis; Ted Arnow for providing background information on his modest wife (for whom this new species is named); Lynn Bohs for contribution to the etymology; and Walter Fertig, Ronald Hartman, and Richard Rabeler for constructive comments on the manuscript. We thank the curators of BRY, NY, US, UT, and UTC for granting access to their collections. We gratefully acknowledge support of the Intermountain Flora project by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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    Noel H. Holmgren & Patricia K. Holmgren

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While working in the Brigham Young University Herbarium (BRY) after this paper had gone to press, we discovered a specimen that extends the range of Eremogone loisiae about one mile east of the Utah border into Wyoming (Wyoming, Uinta County, W side of Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, ca 13.5 mi N of Evanston on both sides of County Road 101, T17N R120W S18 (ne¼), 6440–6520 ft, C. H. Refsdal 4263, 22 Jun 1995, at BRY, RM [n.v.]). The revised distribution for E. loisiae is northern Utah, southeastern Idaho (Bear Lake and Oneida Cos.), and southwestern Wyoming (Uinta Co.).

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Holmgren, N.H., Holmgren, P.K. A new species of Eremogone (Caryophyllaceae) from northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, U.S.A.. Brittonia 63, 1–6 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-010-9167-8

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