Lectotypification of names in the genus Lycianthes (Solanaceae) Author Dean, Ellen A. Center for Plant Diversity, Department of Plant Sciences Mail Stop 7, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, U. S. A., email: eadean @ ucdavis. edu Author Reyes, Miriam Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70 - 367, 04510 México D. F., México text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-05-09 349 1 39 46 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.349.1.4 journal article 4070 10.11646/phytotaxa.349.1.4 444d361b-db3d-4043-89d3-a216cf8d586a 1179-3163 4780043 Lycianthes furcatistellata Bitter (1919: 401) Type ( lectotype , designated here):— COSTA RICA . [ San José :] La Palma , 1550 m [approximately 10.049246 , –83.988661 ], 18 Dec 1888 , Pittier 685 ( BR barcode 000000552910 [digital photo!]; image of the lectotype is available at http://www.br.fgov.be/RESEARCH/ COLLECTIONS/HERBARIUM/detail.php?ID=503667) . Nomenclatural notes :— Bitter (1919) cited three gatherings in the protologue: Pittier 685 , Tonduz 12612 , and Wercklé 61 , and he cited the herbaria housing the specimens that he examined. We were able to locate the original material that he examined at B, BR , and US : Pittier 685 ( BR barcode 000000552910); Tonduz 12612 ( US No. 861202, barcode 00027877); Wercklé 61 (B [specimen not seen; F photo negative available # 2573!]). The Pittier 685 specimen at BR ( BR barcode 000000552910) is selected here as the lectotype for the name Lycianthes furcatistellata . Taxonomic notes :— Lycianthes furcatistellata is a Central American shrub or vine with simple to dendritic, brown trichomes, leaves with rounded bases, long pedicels, and purplish, entire corollas.