New combinations and names in Heliotropium (Heliotropiaceae) from South America, including a new occurrence for the flora of Ecuador
Author
Melo, José Iranildo Miranda De
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Phytotaxa
2022
2022-10-11
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92
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.1.7
journal article
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10.11646/phytotaxa.568.1.7
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Heliotropium fuliginosum
(Kunth) J.I.M.Melo
,
comb. nov.
Basionym:
Tournefortia fuliginosa
Kunth
,
Nov. Gen.
Sp. (quarto ed.) 3: 81. 1818.
Type:—
VENEZUELA
. “Crescit cum praecedente?” i.e. “Crescit prope Cumaná et Bordones”, s. dat.,
A
.
J
.
A
. Bonpland &
F
.
W
.
H
.
A
.
von Humboldt
s.n.
(
lectotype
:
P00670712
, image!, designated here; isolectotypes:
P00136376
, image!,
P00136377
, image!,
P00136378
, image!)
.
Distribution.—
Peru
,
Ecuador
,
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Jamaica
.
Notes.—
In the original description,
Kunth (1818: 81)
did not designate any material as a basis for the establishment of
Tournefortia fuliginosa
. However, on checking the material housed at P,
four specimens
of
Bonpland
&
Humboldt s.n.
were found, all of them labeled as type specimens (P00136376, P00136377, P00136378, and P00670712). Nonetheless, the specimen with barcode P00670712, obtained in
Venezuela
and even, with the expression
Crescit cum praecedente?
, the same used in the protologue, and the most complete, with handwriting in the label stating that it is the type. For this reason, the material P00670712 is designated here as the
lectotype
for
T. fuliginosa
.