A New Name and a New Lectotypification in Neotropical Plants
(Ebenaceae, Solanaceae)
Sandra Knapp
Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD,
United Kingdom, sk@nhm.ac.uk
AnSTtrA:T. A new name in Diospyros, D. pana-
mense S. Knapp, is coined to replace the homonym-
ic D. whitei S. Knapp, and the name Brunfelsia
cuneifolia J. A. Schmidt in Martius is lectotypified
correctly with an extant specimen.
The following errors have come to light and are
corrected here.
During the preparation of the account of Eben-
aceae for Flora Mesoamericana, two new taxa of
Diospyros were described (Knapp, 1997). One of
these, D. whitei S. Knapp, was named in honor of
the late Frank White, life-long student of the genus.
Unfortunately, the epithet had been published just
prior to that date for an African species, D. whitei
Dowsett-Lemaire & Pannell (Dowsett-Lemaire &
Pannell, 1996), also in honor of the late Frank
White. This necessitates a new name for the Me-
soamerican taxon.
Diospyros panamense S. Knapp, nom. nov. Re-
placed name: Diospyros whitei S. Knapp, No-
von 7: 258. 1997. Not Diospyros whitei Dow-
sett-Lemaire & Pannell, Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat.
Belg. 65: 399. 1996. TYPE: Panama. San
Bias: Rfo diablo y vecinidad de Duque Sui, a
unos 10 km de la costa frente a la Isla de
Nargana, ruta hacia Cerro Ibed6n, 80-110 m,
9022'N, 78035'W, H. Herrera et al. 1175 (ho-
lotype, BM; isotypes, MO, PMA).
The new epithet is derived from the country of
origin of the only known specimens, Panama.
After the publication of the monograph of Brun-
felsia (Solanaceae) by the late Tim Plowman (Plow-
man, 1998), edited by S. Knapp and J. R. Press,
Fred Barrie (MO) kindly alerted to us to our (SK &
JRP) incorrect lectotypification of Brunfelsia cunei-
folia J. A. Schmidt using a photo of a destroyed B
sheet, as specified by Plowman in his unpublished
thesis. We also contravened Article 37.5 of the
Code (Greuter et al., 1994) by not citing the her-
barium in which the photograph was housed, ren-
dering the lectotypification in Plowman (1998) in-
valid.
In describing Brunfelsia cuneifolia, Schmidt
(1864) cited two specimens: "In Brasilia austral-
iore: Sellow nr. 4016 in hb. Berol. In sylvis palu-
dosis inundatisque prope S. Joze prov. S. Pauli:
Riedel nr. 1467 in hb. Petropol." Reidel 1467 in
LE is clearly a specimen of B. obovata Bentham
(Plowman, 1998). The Sellow collection in B cited
by Schmidt (Sellow 4016) was destroyed in the Ber-
lin herbarium, but two unnumbered Sellow collec-
tions housed at F and M appear to be duplicates
as they "conform in every way" (Plowman, 1998)
to the photograph of the destroyed Berlin sheet.
Many Sellow duplicates were distributed without
numbers. Plowman's treatment of the specimen in
F as an isosyntype is accepted here, and thus it is
possible to lectotypify B. cuneifolia. Plowman
(1974, 1998) indicated that he wished to lectotypify
B. cuneifolia with the destroyed B sheet, as good
photographs of it exist. This, however, is contrary
to Article 9.9 of the Code (Greuter et al., 1994),
which states that original material must be used for
lectotypification; the photographs were taken later
and did not form part of the protologue. It is also
contrary to Article 9.11: "If a holotype or previously
designated lectotype has been lost or destroyed and
it can be shown that all other original material dif-
fers taxonomically from the destroyed type, a neo-
type may be selected to preserve the usage estab-
lished by the previous lectotypification." Since the
previous lectotypification (Plowman, 1998) was in-
valid, duplicates of the syntypes exist, and one of
the two syntypes of B. cuneifolia is attributable to
another taxon (B. obovata Bentham), it is clear the
species needs correct lectotypification to prevent
future confusion. I correctly and unambiguously
lectotypify B. cuneifdlia J. A. Schmidt here, using
the unnumbered Sellow specimen at F annotated
by Plowman as "isotype" as the new lectotype.
Brunfelsia cuneifolia J. A. Schmidt, in Martius,
Fl. Bras. 8(1): 259. 1864. TYPE: Brazil. "In
Brasilia australiore," Sellow [4016] (lectotype,
designated here, F; isolectotype, M; photo-
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1999
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Neotropical Plants
graphs of destroyed sheet at B (F neg. 621824,
as Sellow 4016), F, NY, US).
Acknowledgments. I thank Alison Strugnell
(FHO) and Fred Barrie (F, MO) for alerting me to
these errors, and Mike Gilbert (MO, BM) and two
anonymous referees for careful review of the man-
uscript.
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