Vicia monantha subsp. monantha has no given author.

18775
Reporter: feedback bot
Type: Feedback
Summary: Vicia monantha subsp. monantha has no given author.
Resolution: Invalid
Status: Closed
Created: 2016-10-12 12:12:05.754
Updated: 2016-10-14 09:55:31.38
Resolved: 2016-10-14 09:55:31.321
        
        
Description: Vicia monantha subsp. monantha (http://www.gbif.org/species/7068363) has no given Author. It should be Retz.

The Plant List also does not provide an author (ild-9305), but lacks any feedback option, unfortunately.



*Reporter*: Arne Erpenbach
*E-mail*: [mailto:arne.erpenbach@uni-konstanz.de]]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-10-14 09:55:22.8
Updated: 2016-10-14 09:55:22.8
        
The described species does have the author:
Vicia monantha Retz.
http://www.gbif.org/species/2975416

This is an autonym which do not have a cited authorship in the GBIF backbone.
This is standard practice as these names are implicitly created by the code and not through a published paper:

http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art26&emph=autonym
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonym_(botany)