Three new combinations and one lectotypification of fern and lycophyte taxa from the French overseas territories
Author
Rouhan, Germinal
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, CNRS, Université des Antilles; CP 39, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
Author
Boullet, Vincent
0000-0002-3482-1662
Conservatoire Botanique National de Mascarin, 2 rue du Père Georges, Les Colimaçons, 97436 Saint-Leu, La Réunion; France v. boullet 43 @ orange. fr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3482 - 1662 & EA 7462 Géoarchitecture, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 29200 Brest
v.boullet43@orange.fr
Author
Field, Ashley
Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, Mt Coot-tha Road Toowong, Qld 4066, Australia & Australian Tropical Herbarium, Sir Robert Norman Building, James Cook University Campus, Smithfield Queensland 4878, P. O. Box 6811 Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia.
Author
Schuettpelz, Eric
Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U. S. A.
text
Phytotaxa
2021
2021-04-16
497
1
54
56
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.497.1.6
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.497.1.6
1179-3163
5423814
Antrophyopsis gigantea
(Bory) Rouhan, Boullet & Schuettp.
,
comb. nov.
Basionym:
Antrophyum giganteum
Bory (1833: 36)
Type:—
Mauritius
.
Le Pouce
,
C
. Bélanger s.n.
(
lectotype
P
[
P00483382
!], hic designatus; isolectotypes
P
[
P00483381
!],
P
[
P01482666
!])
.
Notes:—This species was not included in the study of vittarioid ferns by
Schuettpelz
et al.
(2016)
and its placement in the phylogeny has yet to be assessed. Nonetheless, it is morphologically most similar to
Antrophyopsis boryana
(
Willdenow 1810: 128
)
Schuettpelz (2016: 717)
that was included in the molecular analysis and confirmed as belonging to
Antrophyopsis
(
Benedict 1907: 447
)
Schuettpelz (2016: 717)
. It is distinguished from
A. boryana
by sessile, subelliptic to suboblanceolate fronds, but both share the generic characters, notably spherical apical cells of the soral paraphyses and ecostate laminae (i.e. lacking midribs). Although
A. gigantea
was described from
Mauritius
, it was never observed there again (
Badré 2008
) and is today known only from
La Reunion
. As there are three sheets housed at
P
, we designated as
lectotype
the sheet with complete leaves given that the base of fronds is critical for distinguishing the species; also, the same sheet bears the more complete labels.