Lectotypifications and a new combination in Eugenia sect. Racemosae (Myrtaceae)
Author
Mazine, Fiorella F.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, campus Sorocaba, Rod. João Leme dos Santos km 110, 18052 - 780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil.
Author
Abstract, Vinicius Castro Souza
text
Phytotaxa
2015
2015-04-21
205
3
157
167
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
1179-3163
13639705
17.
Eugenia trinitatis
De Candolle (1828: 280)
.
Type:—
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
. “
Myrtus dioica Sieb.
pl. exs. trin. n. 94”
(
Sieber 94
) (
holotype
G-DC!,
isotypes
BM
!,
F
!,
G
!,
HAL
,
K
!,
LE
!,
M
!,
MO
!,
P
!,
W
!).
Eugenia grenadensis
Urban (1916: 337)
.
Type
:—
GRENADA
.
St. Georges
,
Bon Accord mountains
, grows in mountains ridges,
21 December 1905
,
W
.
E
. Broadway 1884
(
holotype
B
†;
lectotype
MO
!, designated here;
isolectotypes
A
,
K
!,
NY
!).
Notes:—The
holotype
of
Eugenia grenadensis
has been destroyed in Berlin. The
isotype
at
MO
has been designated as
lectotype
.
Distribution:—
Eugenia trinitatis
is distributed in Antilles (
McVaugh, 1989
,
Fournet, 2002
). Williams (1934) and
McVaugh (1989)
have referred that
Eugenia trinitatis
is unknown from
Trinidad
except for the
type
specimens. Williams (1934) cited the
type
as probably collected in Guadeloupe.