Notes on Brazilian Pachira (Malvaceae, Bombacoideae) II: Additional typifications and new synonymies
Author
Carvalho-Sobrinho, Jefferson
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3605-0707
Universidade Federal do Vale do Sao Francisco - UNIVASF, Colegiado de Ciencias Biologicas, Petrolina, Pernambuco, 56300 - 990, Brazil & Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE, Departamento de Ciencias Florestais, Recife, Pernambuco, 52171 - 900, Brazil
jef.sobrinho@gmail.com
Author
Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko
Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes - UMC, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biotecnologia, Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo, 08780 - 911, Brazil
Author
Dorr, Laurence J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7157-363X
Department of Botany, MRC- 166, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington DC 20013 - 7012, USA
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Pachira aquatica Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 726, tt. 291, 292. 1775.
Figs 1
, 2A
Carolinea princeps
L. f., Suppl. Pl.: 314. 1782 [1781], nom. illeg. superfl.
Pachira carolinea
Dum. Cours., Bot. Cult., ed. 1, 3: 84. 1802, nom. illeg. superfl.
Bombax aquaticum
(Aubl.) K. Schum., in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6): 62. 1895.
Carolinea pompalis
Moc. &
Sesse
ex DC., Prodr. 1: 478. 1824, nom. nud., pro syn.
Pachira grandiflora
Tussac, Fl. Antill. 4: 12, tt. 3, 4. 1827.
Carolinea grandiflora
(Tussac) Spach, Hist. Nat.
Veg
. 14: 206. 1847 [1848]. Type:
"Antilles."
Lectotype, designated by
Yoshikawa et al. (in press)
: Tussac (1827, t. 3).
Carolinea macrocarpa
Schltdl. & Cham., Linnaea 6: 423. 1831.
Pachira macrocarpa
(Schltdl. & Cham.) Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 1(2): 329. 1842.
Pachira longifolia
Hook., Bot. Mag., ser. 3, 6: t. 4549. 1850, nom. illeg. superfl.
Bombax macrocarpum
(Schltdl. & Cham.) K. Schum., in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6): 62. 1895. Type: Mexico. Veracruz, Papantla, Feb 1829 (lf, fl bud), F. Deppe & C.J.W. Schiede 1312 (lectotype, designated by
Yoshikawa et al. (in press)
: BM barcode 000645670 [s.n.]; isolectotypes: HAL barcode 0098398, HAL barcode 0128027 (2 sheets), HAL barcode 0128028 [s.n.] (2 sheets), LE n.v., W n.v.).
Carolinea lovisa-carolina
L. ex B.D. Jacks., Index Linn. Herb.: 52. 1912, nom. nud.
Type
.
French Guiana. Cayenne, 1775 (lf),
F. Aublet
s.n.
(
lectotype
, as
"
holotype
,"
designated by
Robyns 1963
, pp. 238, 242: BM barcode 000645671). Epitype:
French Guiana. Tour de
l'Ile
River
,
0-10 m
,
04°47' 36"N
,
052°22' 38"W
,
18 Oct 1991
(lf, fl),
S.A. Mori
et al.
22126
(epitype, designated here:
US
barcode 00636701; isoepitypes: CAY barcode 155330, NY barcode 402480)
.
Note.
Yoshikawa et al. (in press)
typified several names that are synonyms of
Pachira aquatica
, but omitted mention of
nomina nuda
. Despite their lack of nomenclatural standing, these
nomina nuda
associated with
P. aquatica
do appear in standard indices (e.g.,
IPNI 2021
;
Tropicos 2021
) and we include them to clarify their identification. Likewise, we discuss two names typified by
Yoshikawa et al. (in press)
in order to clarify their synonymies and bibliographic citations that are confused in standard indices.
The lectotype of
Pachira aquatica
consists solely of detached leaflets and a sterile twig. Consequently, a flowering collection from French Guiana is designated here as an epitype (Fig.
1
).
Figure 1.
Epitype of
Pachira aquatica
Aubl. (US barcode 00636701).
"
Carolinea pompalis
fl. mex. ic. ined.
" was cited originally as a synonym of
C. minor
Sims (≡
Pachira minor
(Sims) Hemsl.).
Robyns (1963)
did not agree with this interpretation and placed the
nomen nudum
among his "
Species dubiae incertae sedis
."
McVaugh (2000
, p. 88) discussed the sources of the material that
de Candolle (1824)
examined, which included a plate in G (see F neg. no. 30513) and presumably another illustration now in the Torner Collection (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation accession No. 6331.0864; see also No. 6331.1977). These images depict
P. aquatica
, which occurs in Mexico and South America.
Pachira minor
is restricted to South America, which was not visited by the
Sesse
and
Mocino
Expedition.
Several indices (e.g.,
IPNI 2021
;
Tropicos 2021
) state incorrectly that the combination
Carolinea grandiflora
(Tussac) Spach was made in 1834, but
Spach (1834
, p. 426) did not then definitely associate the epithet "
grandiflora
" with the genus
Carolinea
stating simply
"Carolinea
de Tussac. -
Pachira grandiflora
Tussac" (see
Turland et al. 2018
; Art. 35.2). The combination was made in 1847 in an index to the larger work when
Spach (1847
, p. 206) wrote "[
Carolinea
]
Carolinea grandiflora
, Tuss. .. [Vol.] 3 [Pag.] 426": the volume and page numbers providing an indirect reference to the basionym (see
Turland et al. 2018
; Art. 41.3).
Carolinea macrocarpa
was described from Mexican material cultivated in Berlin. The protologue gives the type locality as "
Ad ripas fluminum et rivulorum Papantlensium et Tecolutensium
.
Papantlae
."
Robyns (1963
, p. 239) selected "
Schiede
et
Deppe
1312" as
"typus"
and he cited specimens at BM, LE and W, but not HAL. The labels on the HAL specimens, however, suggest the collecting combination may have been "Deppe & Schiede" and not "Schiede & Deppe."
Pachira longifolia
is a superfluous name for
P. macrocarpa
(≡
Carolinea macrocarpa
). The epithet of this superfluous name is often miscited as "
longiflora
" (see e.g.,
Robyns 1963
; Alverson in
Berry et al. 1997
), which is perhaps understandable given that
Hooker (1850)
called it the "Long-flowered
Pachira
."