Lectotypification of three names in the genus Blumea DC. (Asteraceae)
Author
Dilsha, Muthalaveettil
Author
Satheesh, George
text
Adansonia
2023
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2023-05-22
45
11
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journal article
262404
10.5252/adansonia2023v45a11
161d9243-558c-449e-aeb2-58fd213f163f
1639-4798
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Blumea floresiana
(Sch.Bip. ex Miq.) Boerlage
(
Fig. 2
)
Handleiding tot de kennis der flora van Nederlandsch Indië: Beschrijving van de families en geslachten der Nederl. Indische phanerogamen
2 (1): 238 (
Boerlage 1891
). — Basionym:
Conyza floresiana
Sch. Bip. Ex Miq.
,
Flora van Nederlandsch Indie
2: 45 (
Miquel 1856
)
.
Blumea sessiliflora
Decne.
,
Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle
3: 410 (
Decaisne 1834
).
TYPE
SPECIMEN
. —
Barie island
,
Ad
rupes prope
Barie
,
insula
Flores
,
25.IV.1850
,
Zollinger
3329
(lecto-,
P
[
P00692057
, digital image]!, here designated; isolecto-,
L
[
L
.3021868]!,
M
[M-0093753]!,
P
[
P01816044
,
P00692058
,
P00692059
]!,
U
[
U0246861
]!)
.
TYPE
LOCALITY
. —
Barie island
.
REMARKS
Various author citations are encountered for the name
Blumea floresiana
. Some of them are ‘(Sch.Bip.ex.Miq.) Boerl.ex Koord.’, ‘(Sch. Bip. ex. Miq.) Koord.’, ‘(Sch.-Bip.) Boerl’., ‘Sch.Bip.’, ‘Boerlage’ and ‘(Sch.-Bip.) Boerl’. In two important revisionary studies of
Blumea
by
Randeria (1960)
and
Pornpongrungrueng
et al.
(2016)
, the author citation followed is ‘(Sch.-Bip.) Boerl’.
Boerlage (1891)
created a combination using the name
Conyza floresiana
Sch.
-Bip.
(in
Zollinger 1854
). But the name
Conyza floresiana
is invalid.Schulz-Bipontinus listed 25
Conyza
species
, among them
C. floresiana
(no. 16),
C. celebica
(no. 23) and
C. monocephala
(no. 24), for which a single descriptive character is provided: “
Fl. lutei
” – i.e. yellow flowers – not serving as a diagnostic character and so these names were not valid.
Miquel (1856)
validated
Conyza floresiana
Sch.
-Bip. by providing a description. Hence, the correct author citation for the name
Blumea floresiana
is definitely ‘(Sch.Bip. ex Miq.) Boerlage’.
The name
Conyza floresiana
Sch.
-Bip. first appeared in a publication ofZollinger (1854). Zollinger stated that the determination of Compositae in his work was carried out by Schultz-Bipontinus.In protologue herbarium number of
Zollinger 3329
is mentioned, while no specific herbarium is mentioned. We traced four sheets of
Zollinger 3329
from P, one each from L, M and U. Schultz-Bipontinus cited the locality as “
Ad rupes pr. Barie L. ins. Flores VI
”. Zollinger detailed the locality as “
Eiland flores, op rotsen aan de kust bij bari
”, meaning: “Island of Flores, on rocks on the coast near Bari”.Most of the herbarium sheets of Zollinger used by F.A. W.Miquel for his
Flora van Nederlandsch Indië
is at P.So we designate the sheet with barcodeP00692057 as the
lectotype
of the name
Blumea floresiana
.