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
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3
157
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
1179-3163
13639705
19.
Eugenia glomeruliflora
Mazine
,
nom. nov.
Replaced synonym:
Eugenia macrophylla
O.Berg (1857: 268)
. Nom. illeg., non
Eugenia macrophylla
Lamarck (1789: 196)
.
Eugenia cupulata
Amshoff var.
macrophylla
McVaugh (1969: 176)
.
Type:—
BRAZIL
. “In silvis ad oppidum Ega prov. do Alto Amazonas”,
October 1834
,
Poeppig 2704
(
holotype
W,
isotypes
BM, G, LE, P).
Notes:—
McVaugh (1969)
recognized
Eugenia macrophylla
O. Berg
as a variety of
Eugenia cupulata
Amshoff (1942: 160)
,
E. cupulata
var.
macrophylla
McVaugh
, differing from
E. cupulata
var.
cupulata
through its flowers arranged in fascicles, with a very short rachis (
2–7 mm
long), with rusty to yellow trichomes. The
holotype
and
isotypes
of
E. macrophylla
O. Berg (
Poeppig 2704
)
have been analyzed and compared to types and other specimens of
Eugenia cupulata
Amshoff. We
concluded that it is a different species, being part of
Eugenia
sect.
Umbellatae
, not
Eugenia
sect.
Racemosae
.
A new name was necessary because
Eugenia macrophylla
Lam. (1789)
has priority.
Etymology:—The specific epithet alludes the short-pediceled flowers, densely arranged similar to a cluster.
The name of Otto Berg does not appear between brackets before McVaugh’s name, because
E. macrophylla
O. Berg
is an illegitimate name, a later homonym (
McNeill et al. 2012
, article 6.11).