Following our simplified taxonomic and nomenclatural concept of generic delimitation in the group of Sorbus s. l. (Rosaceae: Maleae) and recent nomenclatural transfers made in 2025, we provide here some necessary updates and corrections. In particular, by oversight, two nomenclatural combinations based on the same basionym (Sorbus paxiana Jáv.) and referable to the same taxon were published simultaneously in our article of 2025: “Aria paxiana” and “Hedlundia paxiana”. Despite the explanation available in our text that in our scheme treating Aria in a wide sense this taxon should be placed in Hedlundia, it looked as publications of two alternative names for the same taxon, and thus the combinations have not been validly published because they were unintentionally (but still confusingly for a potential reader) presented as de facto alternative names. Here the new combination Hedlundia paxiana (Jáv.) Mosyakin, Fedor. & McNeill is properly validated. It is concluded that the combination Aria colchica (Zinserl.) Mezhenskyj was validly published in 2018, despite the error in citing the epithet of the basionym (“buschiana” instead of colchica). New combinations Hedlundia oravica (Velebil, Bernátová, M. Lepší & P. Lepší) Mosyakin, McNeill & Fedor. and Aria fayana (L. Houston & T.C.G. Rich) Mosyakin, McNeill & Fedor. are validated for two species recently described in Sorbus.

Keywords: Aria, Hedlundia, new combinations, nomenclature, Rosaceae, taxonomy

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