Viola portulacea Leybold (1865: 381)

Nicola, Marcela Viviana, Salomón, Luciana & Zuloaga, Fernando Omar, 2018, Nomenclatural and taxonomic study in species of Viola (Violaceae) from Argentina, Phytotaxa 338 (2), pp. 151-176 : 170

Viola portulacea Leybold (1865: 381)

Type (lectotype, designated here):—[ CHILE. XIII Region:] Entre el Malpaso y Portillo (de los Piuquenes), por los arenales, F. Leybold s.n. (SGO 000003323 [digital image!].

Protologue citation:—“ein noch unbeschriebenes Veilchen aus der Cordillera des Portillo-Passes zwischen Santiago de Chile und Mendoza (Ostseite der Andes)”.

Distribution:—Native of Argentina and Chile. In Argentina it is known for the provinces of Mendoza and Neuquén.

Notes:—Friedrich Leybold settled in Chile from 1855 onwards ( Stafleu & Cowan 1979). It is not known where he deposited his herbarium material and types, but type materials collected by Leybold between 1854 and 1890 were deposited at SGO ( Stafleu & Cowan 1979; Muñoz-Schick et al. 2012) without evidence that duplicates were sent or not to other herbaria. Given the uncertainty that duplicates may exist in other herbaria, we found the specimen with the barcode number SGO 000003323 in the National Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile, and selected it as the lectotype since agrees with the original description and it is a well preserved and complete specimen of this species.