Gomphrena perennis

Bena, Maria Julia, 2017, Typification and nomenclatural notes on twenty-seven names of Gomphrena L. (Amaranthaceae) linked to the South American flora, Phytotaxa 296 (2), pp. 131-146 : 141

Gomphrena perennis fo. parvifolia Stuchlik (1912: 154)

After the diangosis, Stuchlik (1912: 154) listed two collections by Lorentz (nos.387, and 170), also specifying “Berl.” (= “Berlinen Herbarium”). However none of these specimens are currently housed at B since they could have been destroyed during the II World War. Lorentz’s collections are also preserved at GOET, where I found only one specimen of those cited by Stuchlik (1912), numbered as 387 (GOET-015488). This specimen is here designated as lectotype of the name Gomphrena perennis fo. parvifolia.

According to the Catalogue of the Vascular plants from the southern cone ( Zuloaga et al, 2008) Gomphrena perennis fo. parvifolia is a synonym of Gomphrena perennis Linnaeus.

Gomphrena perennis fo. parvifolia Stuchlik (1912: 154)

Type (lectotype here designated):— ARGENTINA. San Francisco. Las Peñas, January 1871, Lorentz 387 (GOET-015488!) ( Fig. 3 ).

= Gomphrena perennis Linnaeus (1753: 224)

Type (lectotype designated by Mears 1980: 86):—[Icon] “ Amaranthoides perenne floribus stramineis radiates ” (Dillenius 1732: t.20, f. 22, image available at http://herbarium.bgbm.org/object/ B 100673185)

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FIGURE 3. Lectotype of the name Gomphrena perennis fo. parvifolia (GOET-015488!).