Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Neotropical Balanophoraceae Author Cardoso, Leandro Jorge Telles Author Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-02-27 340 3 263 270 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.340.3.6 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.340.3.6 1179-3163 13720353 Langsdorffia moritziana Klotzsch & H.Karsten in Klotzsch (1847: 461) Type ( lectotype , designated here):— VENEZUELA . Colonia Tovar , 1865, J . W . K . Moritz 1619 ( K barcode K000640418 !, isolectotypes BM barcode BM000993486 !, E barcode E00313895 [digital photo!]; image of the lectotype is available at http://apps.kew.org/ herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode= K000640418 ) . Nomenclatural notes :—In the protologue, Klotzsch & H . Karsten in Klotzsch (1847) quoted: “In palmetis Colonia Tovar Columbiae, Moritz n. 1619. Karsten (Coll. II.) n. 22”. Referring to the type of L. moritziana , Hansen (1980) wrote: Type. Syntypes : Moritz 1619 , Venezuela , Colonia Tovar 1865 ( K , BM ); Karsten 22 , ibid. ( P ). After analyzing all syntypes , we herein designate the specimen Moritz 1619 ( K barcode K 000640418) as the lectotype of L. moritziana , since it is the most representative of the morphological features described in the protologue Taxonomic notes :— Langsdorffia moritziana is a heterotypic synonym of L. hypogaea Mart.