Typification of Ficus sect. Americanae (Moraceae): F. aurea and F. pertusa complexes Author Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso 0000-0003-1822-227X Instituto de Pesquisa do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, DIPEQ, Rua Pacheco Leão 915, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22460 - 030, Brazil. & leandro. pederneiras @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1822 - 227 X leandro.pederneiras@gmail.com Author Mitidieri-Rivera, Nicole 0000-0001-6045-4491 Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. Venezuela s / n, cuadra 34, Ciudad Universitaria, Lima, Peru. & nicole. mitidieri @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6045 - 4491 nicole.mitidieri@gmail.com Author Romaniuc-Neto, Sergio 0000-0002-2759-3008 Instituto de Botânica, Herbário SP, C. P. 68048, São Paulo - SP, 04045 - 972, Brazil. & sromaniuc @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2759 - 3008 sromaniuc@gmail.com Author Mansano, Vidal De Freitas 0000-0002-7204-0744 Instituto de Pesquisa do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, DIPEQ, Rua Pacheco Leão 915, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22460 - 030, Brazil. & vidalmansano @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7204 - 0744 vidalmansano@gmail.com text Phytotaxa 2021 2021-08-13 514 2 149 157 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.514.2.6 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.514.2.6 1179-3163 5314418 Ficus palmicida Pittier (1937: 69) Lectotype (designated by Berg & DeWolf 1975):— VENEZUELA . Guárico , La Cruz Rubiera , 12 April 1927 , H . F .Pittier 12324 ( lectotype : NY00025330 !; isolectotypes: A00034530 !, US00090198!, VEN393 !) Nomenclatural notes:— In the protologue it is not mentioned the herbarium in which the type of Pittier 12324 was allocated. According to the code (Art. 7.11, note 2, ex. 13), when the herbarium was not mentioned, all specimens of that gathering are syntypes and, therefore, a lectotype must be designated. Berg & DeWolf (1975) were the first to name the material deposited in the NY herbarium as the lectotype (in that work as “isotype”) and, therefore, must be followed ( Turland et al. 2018 , Art. 7.11). Berg & Villavicencio (2004) and Berg (2007) cite the VEN collection as a type (in these works as “ holotype ”), but this must be corrected to the designation of Berg & DeWolf (1975). The duplicate deposited at VEN has a label and a stamp called “ Holotype ”, however, according to the code, the designation of a type is achieved only by effective publication (Art. 7.10). The code also warns that some of the material used by an author to describe a taxon may not be in the author’s herbarium (Art. 9A.1). Although Pittier (1937 , Introduction) says that many materials have been accumulated in the VEN herbarium, it is not possible to be sure that the type belongs to the herbarium. There are cases in Pittier’s work that the types were not found at VEN (ex.: Ficus corpulenta Pittier [1943: 257] , Pederneiras et al. 2018 ). Taxonomical note:— Ficus palmicida was synonymized by Berg (2007) as F. pertusa .