Nomenclature and typification of names in the endemic genus Pancheria (Cunoniaceae) from New Caledonia Author Hopkins, Fortune Author Bradford, Jason C. text Adansonia 2009 3 31 1 103 135 journal article 1639-4798 295C9B6D-61EC-4000-A704-7823D342771A Genus Pancheria Brongn. & Gris Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 9: 74 (1862) , nom. cons. LECTOTYPE . — Pancheria elegans Brongn. & Gris ( Fig. 1 ), designated by Brongniart & Gris (1868) . REMARKS Brongniart & Gris’s name commemorates Jean- Armand-Isidore Pancher, a French government botanist based in Nouméa from 1857 to 1869 and again from 1874 until he died in 1877 aged 63 ( Stafleu & Cowan 1983 ). He made numerous collections of Cunoniaceae in New Caledonia including type material of four names of species in Pancheria . Hutchinson (1967) mentioned Pancheria elegans as the type of the genus Pancheria , and Hoogland & MacKee (1988) ascribed the lectotypification to him. However, we do not know if Hutchinson’s statement was his own choice or based on Brongniart & Gris (1868) . Wilson (1985) argued that the latter authors had lectotypified the name Pancheria when they described and illustrated P. elegans in detail; although the type concept was not fully developed at that time, they used the word “type” in the introduction to their paper: “les types de ces nouveaux genres” ( Brongniart & Gris 1868: 2 ). Lectotypification of the name Pancheria is therefore ascribed to Brongniart & Gris, and the syntype of P.elegans collected by Pancher is designated below as the lectotype of that species’ name. Note that Wilson (1985) gave the date of publication for Brongniart & Gris’s paper as 1869 but 1868 is printed in the journal and we have not found evidence for the later date. Hoogland & MacKee (1988) proposed the conservation of the generic name Pancheria Brongn. & Gris , published in 1862, over Pancheria Montrouz. , published in 1860. Although the name in Flore de l’Île Art ( Montrouzier 1860 ) was spelled “ Panchezia ”, this was considered a misprint since Montrouzier did not have the opportunity to correct the proofs of his work ( Hoogland & MacKee 1988 ). Pancheria Montrouz. refers to a genus of Rubiaceae . Pancheria Brongn. & Gris was first listed as a conserved name in the Tokyo edition of the Code ( Greuter et al . 1994: 236 ). The orthographic variant Panchera was used by Post & Kuntze (1903) but has not been taken up by others. VALIDLY PUBLISHED NAMES