Typification of Mexican Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae)
Author
Steinmann, Victor W.
0000-0003-0103-9575
Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Centro Regional del Bajío, Av. Lázaro Cárdenas 253, 61600 Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.
steinmav@gmail.com
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Phytotaxa
2023
2023-12-12
630
1
61
68
https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/download/phytotaxa.630.1.5/51357
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.630.1.5
1179-3163
10361687
Euphorbia gumaroi
Meyrán (2000: 68)
.
Lectotype
(designated here):—
MEXICO
.
Mexico City
: cultivated plants collected by
Gumaro Manzo
“al norte de
Tepatepec
, mpio. Francisco I. Madero, Hidalgo,”
November 1996
,
J. Meyrán
5745
(
ENCB
barcode
ENCB008582
!)
.
This rare, dwarf succulent is endemic to central
Mexico
. In the protologue, Meyrán indicates that the
holotype
is a collection of his (#5745) in the Herbario Nacional de
México
(MEXU). He doesn’t cite any
isotypes
or
paratypes
. According to the authorities of MEXU (Gerardo Salazar Chávez (curator) and María del Rosario García Peña (head of the type collection), pers. comm. 2023), Meyrán’s
holotype
was never accessioned and likely never delivered to the herbarium. Thus, the only known specimen is
Meyrán 5745
labeled as an
isotype
in the herbarium of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas in
Mexico City
(ENCB). In the absence of the
holotype
, this is designated the
lectotype
.