New combinations and names in Heliotropium (Heliotropiaceae) from South America, including a new occurrence for the flora of Ecuador
Author
Melo, José Iranildo Miranda De
text
Phytotaxa
2022
2022-10-11
568
1
92
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.568.1.7
journal article
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10.11646/phytotaxa.568.1.7
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Heliotropium stapfianum
J.I.M.Melo
,
replacement name.
Basionym:
Tournefortia pauciflora
Killip ex Nowicke, Bull. Torrey Bot.
Club 101(5): 234. 1974
[1975].
Type:—
COLOMBIA
.
Huila
:
Balsillas
, forest at
2100-2200 m
,
3-6 August 1917
,
H
.
H
. Rusby &
F
.
W
. Pennell 706
(
holotype
:
US
00433443, image!; isotypes:
F0052592
F
, image!;
K000583511
, image!;
MO2267477
, image!;
NY00337251
, image!)
.
Distribution.—
Colombia
.
Etymology.—
The specific epithet was given in honor to María Natividad Sánchez de Stapf, a Panamanian botanist that comes studying
Boraginaceae
s.l.
in the two last decades including studies in
Brazil
and Central America, especially focusing the taxonomy of
Cordia
Linnaeus (1753: 190)
genus that currently it is positioned in
Cordiaceae
.