Lumper

• Title

  Lumper

• Definition

  A person (usually a plant taxonomist) that recognizes species of plants with considerable morphological variation included in their concept of species. This often results in placing other names, which may even represent valid species in themselves, in synonymy of the name used by the author for the species being described, this is called lumping species.

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