Kaunia uber (B.L.Rob.) King & Robinson (1980: 260)

Barreto, Jessica Viera & Sancho, Gisela, 2014, Typification of names in Kaunia (Asteraceae, Eupatorieae, Oxylobinae), Phytotaxa 188 (1), pp. 43-48 : 47

8. Kaunia uber (B.L.Rob.) King & Robinson (1980: 260) . Basionym: Eupatorium uber Robinson (1919: 37) .

Lectotype (designated here):— PERÚ. Ancash: “woods near a brook, 2100 m, below Pampa Romas , between Samanco and Caraz ”, 29 May 1903, A. Weberbauer 3184 (Fragment in GH 00008039 [photo!], isolectotype MOL 00006430 [photo!]).

Similarly to the case of Eupatorium endytum, B.L. Robinson included in the protologue of E. uber an explicit reference to the herbarium that houses the type of this name: “Berlin, phot. and frag. Gr.”.In addition, we found a well preserved and complete duplicate of Weberbauer 3184 at MOL, that holds duplicates of most Peruvian collections of Dr. A. Weberbauer. We proceed to designate the fragment at GH as lectotype because is the specimen that the author of the species analyzed and cited in the protologue. The fragment at GH is accompanied by a photograph of the specimen that was destroyed in Berlin and has a label handwritten by B. L. Robinson.