Erythroglossum laciniaticola J.M.Freese & C.E.Lane, 2021

Freese, Jillian M. & Lane, Christopher E., 2021, Reorganizing parasitic Delesseriaceae: taxonomic revision of Asterocolax, Phytotaxa 525 (2), pp. 124-136 : 130

Erythroglossum laciniaticola J.M.Freese & C.E.Lane nom. nov.

DESCRIPTION: This species is parasitic on Erythroglossum laciniatum (Lightfoot) Maggs & Hommersand (1993) . The protologue description can be found in Feldmann & Feldmann (1951).

BASIONYM: Asterocolax erythroglossi Feldmann & Feldmann (1951) Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Sciences t. 233, p. 1139.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brest, France (coll. J.Feldmann & G. Feldmann, 1951, Feldmann 8008)

NEOTYPE: Astan, baie de Roscoff, France (coll. Maggs & Hommersand, 1993, Feldmann 9204)

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet refers to the organism’s host and uses “-cola” (dweller or inhabitant, always treated as feminine despite gender of genus [ Stearn 1992]) to maintain recognition of the parasitic nature of the organism.

REFERENCES: Feldmann & Feldmann 1951, 1958; Maggs & Hommersand 1993; Goff et al. 1997

DNA SEQUENCES: GenBank accession number U59789 , Goff et al. 1997, Wales, United Kingdom

REMARKS: The original type species of Asterocolax was collected on Erythroglossum sandrianum (Kütz.) Kylin from ‘rade de Brest’, France, but the herbarium material is missing. A neotype was collected by Maggs and Hommersand (1993) on Erythroglossum laciniatum in Astan, baie de Roscoff, France. The specific epithet for Asterocolax erythroglossi was changed in order to prevent the creation of a tautonym ( Turland et al. 2018, Article 23.4).