Lectotypifications and a new combination in Eugenia sect. Racemosae (Myrtaceae)
Author
Mazine, Fiorella F.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, campus Sorocaba, Rod. João Leme dos Santos km 110, 18052 - 780, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil.
Author
Abstract, Vinicius Castro Souza
text
Phytotaxa
2015
2015-04-21
205
3
157
167
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.205.3.3
1179-3163
13639705
7.
Eugenia grandifolia
O. Berg (1857: 324)
.
Type
:—
BRAZIL
.
Rio de Janeiro
,
Schott
s.n.
(
lectotype
W
!, designated here;
isolectotypes
F
!,
W
!). Remaining
syntype
:—
BRAZIL
.
Rio de Janeiro
,
Sellow s.n.
(
syntype
B
†)
.
Notes:—In describing
Eugenia grandifolia
, Berg (1857)
cited
two syntypes
,
Sellow s.n.
(
B
) and
Schott s.n.
(
W
). The specimen
Schott s.n.
(
W
) has been designated as the
lectotype
of
Eugenia grandifolia
, once the
syntype
from
B
(
Sellow s.n.
) has been destroyed.
Distribution:—
Eugenia grandifolia
is known only from
Rio de Janeiro
, in
Brazil
.