A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of the names and new combination published between 1886 and 1931 in Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) by British botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849 - 1934)
Author
Smith, Gideon F.
text
Phytotaxa
2023
2023-12-21
630
4
266
280
https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/download/phytotaxa.630.4.2/51381
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.630.4.2
1179-3163
10417649
10.
Kalanchoe ellacombei
Brown (1912: 329)
.
Type
:—[[Northern] Rhodesia]
ZAMBIA
, “Livingston[e] [Maramba] and by the River Zambesi
5 miles
[~
8 km
] above Victoria Falls”,
Ellacombe s.n
. (
holotype
, K barcode K000232733 [available at http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/ K000232733]!).
Taxonomic notes
:—At present the name
K. ellacombei
is treated as a synonym of
K. lanceolata
(
Forsskål 1775
: CXI & 89)
Persoon (1805: 446)
.
Nomenclatural notes
:—When describing
K. ellacombei
,
Brown (1912: 329)
stated: “TROPICAL AFRICA.
Rhodesia
: Livingston[e] [Maramba] and by the River Zambesi
5 miles
[~
8 km
] above Victoria Falls,
Ellacombe
.” “
Ellacombe
” is a reference to an Herb. K-held specimen, with barcode K000232733. It is the only specimen cited by
Brown (1912: 329)
and in the absence of evidence that duplicates of it exist, nor that he had additional material available when he published the name
K. ellacombei
. It is therefore the
holotype
of the name
K. ellacombei
(see also
Fernandes 1983: 43
).