Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies
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Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
Author
2009
Author
Knapp, Sandra
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Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
2009
2009-07-07
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10.3989/ajbm.2209
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Solanum lobulatum
O.E. Schulz in Urb., Symb. Ant. 6: 247. 1909
Type:
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
.
St. Vincent
:
Morne Garou
,
960 m
.,
H.H. Smith
&
G.W. Smith
1575
(
lectotype
,
K
[
K000196493
]
, designated here).
Distribution.
Only known from montane areas on the island of St. Vincent, at approximately 1000 m elevation.
Representative specimen.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent,
Howard & al. 17711
(BM, NY).
Schulz did not cite a herbarium when describing
Solanum lobulatum
, and no sheet of
Smith & Smith 1575
is extant at B. The K duplicate of this collection is here designated the lectotype (
Fig. 6d
) as no other duplicates have been found, but are likely to exist.
Solanum lobulatum
was described from sterile material,
Schulz (1909)
stated that the specimen he examined was annotated “we have only seen one root”; from the morphology of the specimen at K it is clear that this is a juvenile individual with a single stem.