Notes on the typification of the names Utricularia bremii Heer and U. intermedia Dreves & Hayne (Lentibulariaceae)
Author
Astuti, Giovanni
Author
Peruzzi, Lorenzo
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Phytotaxa
2018
2018-05-21
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2
172
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.350.2.7
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Utricularia bremii
Heer
in Koelliker (1839: 142)
Type
(
lectotype
, first-step designated by
Meister 1900: 23
, second-step designated here):—
SWITZERLAND
.
Katzensee
,
26 June 1836
,
Bremi s.n.
(
ZT
!;
Fig. 1
)
.
Note on typification
:—In the protologue (Koelliker 1839), Heer quotes a collection made by Bremi in Katzensee (“In torfmooren selten. Am Katzensee, Bremi” [Rare in peat bogs. At Katzen Lake, Bremi]). Hence,
O
. von Heer did provide neither a collection date nor an indication that can unequivocally refer to a single specimen considerable as the
holotype
, as regulated by Art. 9.1 of the
ICN
(
McNeill
et al.
2012
, see also
McNeill 2014
). Consequently, any specimen collected by Bremii before
1839 in
Katzensee could be considered as original material.
Meister (1900)
, in a study concerning the European
Utricularia
species
, reported a list of studied herbarium specimens, among which we can find, listed as the first for
U. bremii
, the following indication: “
Katzensee: Bremi
26 Juni 1836
, Originalexemplare
” [Katzen Lake: Bremi
June 26
th
1836
, original specimens]. It should be noted that the word “
exemplare
” is plural, thus indicating a gathering of more specimens. In accordance with Art. 9.22 of the
ICN
(
McNeill
et al.
2012
), only for lectotypifications after
1 January 1990
the specification of the herbarium where the type is conserved is needed. Accordingly, that of
Meister (1900)
clearly represents a first-step lectotypification (Art. 9.17, Ex. 12 of the
ICN
,
McNeill
et al.
2012
). Starting from this consideration, we tried to locate the collection(s) indicated by
Meister (1900)
, and later also quoted by
Taylor (1989)
, in the herbaria were Heer’s material is conserved (
Z
,
B
,
GZU
,
K
,
HAL
, and
LE
; herbarium acronyms follow
Thiers 2018
) and in other Swiss herbaria (
ZT
,
G
,
NEU
,
CHUR
,
LUG
,
NMLU
,
NHMF
and
HKGL
). We only found a single specimen of
U. bremii
, in
Zürich
(
ZT
! see
Fig. 1
), matching the indication given by
Meister (1900)
. This specimen is designated here as
lectotype
in a second-step lectotypification (Art. 9.17, Ex. 12 of the
ICN
,
McNeill
et al.
2012
). It fully agrees with the current circumscription of the species (see e.g.,
Astuti & Peruzzi 2018
;
Bartolucci
et al.
2018
).