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Sorry for all the people that don't like long writing and don't care about the names..
Back to the boring taxonomic discussion From these studies, it comes that eastern and western elegans population have the same karyotype, so they should hybridise nearly freely when they meet (between Morocco and Algeria). DNA studies show no differenciation of the studied eastern elegans and miniatus/deficiens populations from the western populations. That why I think that it's better to use a subspecies level inside the elegans species and to gather the eastern and western populations of minitaus/deficiens under the same species.I would keep elegans because there's no confusion about what Desfontaine has drawn. And I would drop obsoletus because it's too confusing, as it's difficult to know what Parkinson has reproduced and the name has been typified and used in several Flora (at least Flora iberica and Flora gallica) for Narcissus miniatus/deficiens, writing the synonymy would be terrible.Sorry for all the people that don't like long writing and don't care about the names..
The name albidus is a very old name used for other species. None of the name given by M. Salmon are recognized because they don't fullfilled the ICBN (see yhe botanical names in the genus Narcissus by RHS)If you want to use a simplier name, use Narcissus peroccidentalis Fern. Casas, 1996, it is now quite recognized. IMHO, a subspecies of cantabricus should be enough but I've been already a bit long with taxonomy
i've heard a new classification is discussed among scientifics So be ready to change your labels once again