Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Notes on Six Genera of Acanthaceae in the West Indies
Author
Franck, Alan R.
Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, U. S. A.; Email: afranck @ mail. usf. edu;
Author
Daniel, Thomas F.
Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118, U. S. A. Email: tdaniel @ calacademy. org.
text
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2015
2015-08-14
62
10
309
329
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13154996
0068-547X
13154996
8.
Stenandrium ovatum
Urb., Symb. Antill.
9:129. 1923.
TYPE
.—
CUBA
.
Pinar del Río
:
Prope Herradura
, in pinetis arenosis,
10 Apr 1920
,
Ekman
10701
(
lectotype
, designated here: S [05-310];
isolectotypes
: NY, US).
Figure
4F.
DISCUSSION
.—
Stenandrium ovatum
is endemic to
Cuba
. Its leaves were characterized as rounded to truncate at the base to distinguish it from others in the
S. tuberosum
complex with obtuse to cuneate leaf bases (León and Alain 1957).