The article discusses a proposal to maintain the nomenclature Eriogonum microthecum (Polygonaceae) for the Great Basin wild buckwheat. The epithet microtheca was the original term used for this genus and for the grass species Andropogon microtheca and the moss Rhaphidorrhynchium microtheca. An altered nam was also proposed for Chorizanthe nudicaule andEriogonum brevicaulis.