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Volume 79, 1951
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Wahlenbergia marginata (Thunb.) AD.C., Monogr. Camp., 1830, 142

W. marginata, in the broad sense, consists of at least five jordanons, one in Japan and China (Campanula marginata Thunb.); one in Java (Campanula lavendulaefolia Rein.); two in New Caledonia (Campanula gracilis Forst. f. and Wahlenbergia marginata var. neocaledonica Loth.); and one in New Zealand. Both Lothian and the writer consider this latter plant to be allied to but distinct from the New Caledonian “gracilis” jordanon and suggest for it the name: