Passiflora hermannii De Candolle (1828: 332)

Svoboda, Harlan T., Macdougal, John M. & Ballard, Harvey E., 2016, Typifications and nomenclatural notes in Passiflora section Dysosmia (Passifloraceae), Phytotaxa 288 (2), pp. 101-119 : 107

8. Passiflora hermannii De Candolle (1828: 332) , as ‘ Hermanni ’

Lectotype (here designated):— Illustration from Hermann, Parad. Bat., pl. 176. 1698. [The plate based on cultivated material grown in Leiden, Netherlands, originating from Curaçao.]

Notes: —The very brief protologue of this species describes a plant from the island of Curaçao with “ foliis velutinus trilobatis involucro minimo foliolis 3 integris …”. Notable is the mention of a small involucre of three entire bracts, an unusual morphological state for taxa in Dysosmia . The protologue matches closely with, and is undoubtedly derived from, one of Hermann’s (1698: 176) Passiflora species, “ Flos Passionis albus folio Ibisci sericeo trilobato… ” including an illustration later in his work (plate 176).

De Candolle (1828) indicated that his new species was not well known, using the notation “ species non satis notae.” Probably lacking a specimen at hand, he based the name on Hermann’s work alone. Furthermore, the epithet is to be corrected to ‘ hermannii ’ following Art. 60.12 and Recommendation 60C.1 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012).