Solanum chamaecanthum Griseb

Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1), pp. 65-84 : 71

Solanum chamaecanthum Griseb ., Cat. Pl. Cub.: 190. 1866

Type: Cuba. “ in savanis prope Hanabana ”, 1865, C. Wright s.n. (lectotype, GOET [ GOET0001970 ] , designated here; isolectotype, GOET [GOET0001971]; possible isolectotypes (numbered 3634), GH [GH- 77546], K [K000196224], NY [NY00111375, NY00689170], S [S04-2892]).

Distribution. Endemic to Cuba, in low elevation swampy areas, common in the northwestern part of the island around Havana.

Representative specimen. Cuba, Camagüey, Ekman 8600 (S).

In describing S. chamaeacanthum, Grisebach (1866) did not cite a specific Wright collection number. Wright’s duplicates are not all numbered, and some distributed without numbers are clearly duplicates of numbered collections. A sheet at GOET (GOET0001970) is labelled “savanas Habanana” and is an un-numbered Wright collection, making it the clear choice for a lectotype ( Fig. 2a ). Another sheet (GOET0001971) was annotated lectotype by R.A. Howard in 1984, but as it does not have the locality associated with the protologue has not been selected here as the lectotype.

Figures

Fig. 2. a, lectotype of Solanum chamaeacanthum Griseb., Wright s.n. (GOET0001971); b, lectotype of S. hoplophorum O.E. Schulz, Fuertes 1023 (S04-2916) (= S.crotonoides Lam.).Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; c, lectotype of S. formonense O.E. Schulz and of S. formonense var. parvifolium O.E. Schulz,Ekman H.10265 (S04-2911) (= S. crotonoides Lam.). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; d, lectotype of S. dendroicum O.E.Schulz & Ekman, Ekman H.15102 (S04-2902). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.