New combinations in Stenostelma (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) and two novel species from South Africa
Author
Bester, Stoffel P.
National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. & School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa.
Author
Nicholas, Ashley
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa.
text
Phytotaxa
2018
2018-07-18
361
1
41
55
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.3
1179-3163
Stenostelma corniculatum
(E.Meyer)
Bullock (1956: 521)
.
Lagarinthus corniculatus
E.
Meyer (1837: 208)
.
Gomphocarpus corniculatus
(E.Meyer)
Dietrich (1840: 901)
.
Krebsia corniculata
(E.Meyer)
Schlechter (1895a: 40)
.
Schizoglossum corniculatum
(E.Meyer)
Dyer (1971: 363)
.
Type
:
—
SOUTH AFRICA
,
Eastern Cape Province
,
Queenstown Division
, in rough area near
Table Mountain
, alt.
1524m
,
7 December 1832
,
Drège 3423
(
lectotype
, P [P04256909] scan!, here designated;
isolectotype
K! [K000234343] fragment)
.
Gomphocarpus stenoglossus
Schechter (1894c: 257)
.
Krebsia stenoglossa
(Schltr.)
Schlechter (1896a: 450)
.
Type
:
—
SOUTH AFRICA
,
Eastern Cape Province
,
Kreilis
country,
Barber
293
(
lectotype
K! [K000234340], here designated;
isolectotype
GRA! [
GRA0002403
-0] scan!)
.
In the original description of
Lagarinthus corniculatus
Meyer (1837)
cited two collections (
Drège 3423
and
Drège s.n.
).
Drège s.n.
, from the grassy hillsides at Katberg was not traced. The only duplicates of
Drège 3423
were found at at K and P (scan). As the specimen from P is more complete it is chosen as
lectotype
. The material from K was examined and despite it being only a fragment the identity could be confirmed to be this taxon, based on the flowers only.
Schlechter (1894c)
only listed the collection of
Barber 293
when he newly described
Gomphocarpus stenoglossus
of which
two specimens
could be traced at GRA and K. The material from K is here selected as
lectotype
as it represents the full facies of the species better and is more representative of the species than the sheet from GRA. It was interesting that N.E. Brown wrote on the GRA specimen: “Mr. Bowker & Mrs Baber were brother and sister relations and the same plant with the same number appears to have been distributed sometimes under the one name and sometimes under the other” hence the correction of the label at K from Bowker to Barber.