Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225)

Fortes, Elenice A. & Mansano, Vidal F., 2022, Untangling nomenclatural issues of some Amazonian trees of Eperua Aubl. (Leguminosae, Detarioideae, Detariae), Phytotaxa 542 (2), pp. 189-198 : 194

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.542.2.6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6417886

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7830D344-FF9F-FF68-B5E6-3A50210E02C1

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scientific name

Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225)
status

 

Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225) View in CoL

Lectotype (designated by Cowan 1975): — BRAZIL. Amazonas : Rio Negro, moist forest at Uanauaca, January 1852, R. Spruce 2021 (K[000555107] image!; isolectotypes P[00835936] image!, P[00835937] image!).

Residual syntypes:— BRAZIL. Amazonas : Secus Rio Negro , Brasiliae borealis, inter Barcellos et San Gabriel, December 1851, R. Spruce 2021 (BM[000952281] image!, G[00365211] image!, G[00365212] image!, GH[00103029] image!, K[000555106] image!, M[0215263] image!, P[00835935] image!, W[18890110107] image!) .

The original collection cited by Bentham (1870) for E. leucantha, Spruce 2021 , combined collections made in two different dates: December 1851 and January 1852. However, in order to comprise a single gathering the specimens need to be collected on the same date ( Turland et al. 2018). Thus, Spruce 2021 must be considered two different collections. As Bentham (1870) did not specify the collection date of Spruce 2021, the exsiccate K000555107 with a handwritten annotation by Spruce is not the holotype as informed by Cowan (1975). We correct here Cowan’s use of holotype to lectotype.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Eperua

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