Pancheria brunhesii Pamp.

Hopkins, Fortune & Bradford, Jason C., 2009, Nomenclature and typification of names in the endemic genus Pancheria (Cunoniaceae) from New Caledonia, Adansonia (3) 31 (1), pp. 103-135 : 115-116

7. Pancheria brunhesii Pamp.

Annali di Botanica ( Rome) 2: 98, tab. 7 (1905) , as “ Brunhesi ”. — Types (as given in protologue): “Pic de Pouebo [Deplanche, – Herb de la Nouvelle Caledonie, 1861-67, n. 370bis] – specimen masc. – (B-B, DC)”. — Lectotype (here designated): Pic de Pouébo , 1861-1867 [printed], 1867 [hand-written], ♂ fl., Deplanche 370bis (G! ex DC; isolecto-, G! ex B-B; K!; P! × 5, P00143090 , P00602393 , P00602394 , + 2).

REMARKS

Pampanini (1905) did not explain the etymology of his new names but we have added a second “i” to this epithet as the upper case “B” in the protologue suggests that it commemorated someone with the family name Brunhes.The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) does not list any other epithets based on this name (http://www.ipni.org, plant name search “brunhes%”, 18 September 2007).

Two prominent French academics of the time were the geographer Jean Brunhes (1869-1930) and his brother, the geophysicist Bernard Brunhes (1867-1910).

Jean Brunhes was a lecturer at the University of Fribourg from 1896 to 1912, receiving his doctorate in geography from the University of Paris in 1902. Renato Pampanini received his doctorate from the same university in 1903 (“ Essai sur la géographie botanique des Alpes et en particulier des Alpes sud-orientales ”), and thus the two men would have known each other and shared an interest in geography (V. Malécot pers. comm. 2008).