Duranta sprucei Briquet (1896: 344)

Pablo, Moroni & Nataly, O’Leary, 2016, Typification of names in the genus Duranta (Duranteae, Verbenaceae), Phytotaxa 266 (2), pp. 91-102 : 93

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.266.2.3
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scientific name	Duranta sprucei Briquet (1896: 344)
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Duranta sprucei Briquet (1896: 344) View in CoL

Type (lectotype, designated here):— ECUADOR. “In Andibus Ecuadorensibus”, 1861, R. Spruce 5526 (G barcode 00366342! [digital image], isolectotypes BM barcode 000992775! [digital image], E barcode 00373269! [digital image], F barcode 0074359F! [digital image], G barcode 00366357! [digital image], G barcode 00366377! [digital image], GH barcode 00094759! [digital image], K barcode 000202284! [digital image], MPU barcode 012690! [digital image], NY barcode 00137517! [digital image], P barcode 02886082! [digital image], S No. 04-2573! [digital image], S No. 04-2572! [digital image]).

Protologue citation:—“In Andibus Ecuadorensibus (Spruce nº 5526 in h. Delessert).”

C) Species described from plants grown in botanical gardens

C1) «Orto Botanico di Palermo», Italy

Agostino Todaro described four species in Duranta ( Todaro 1860) based on cultivated plants from the Real Orto Botanico di Palermo, Italy. Subsequent authors mentioned Todaro’s species ( Sanders 1984, Munir 1995) mostly as synonyms of other taxa, but none has referred to the original type material studied by Todaro.

Todaro did not cite any type in the protologues. However, he mentioned the name under which the plants were cultivated in the botanical garden. His personal herbarium is currently housed in PAL ( Stafleu & Cowan 1986); a few of these specimens have labels while the remaining material is not labeled (Gianniantonio Domina, pers. comm.). The labels on the sheets show at least two different handwritings. In order to determine if any of the labels was written by Todaro the handwriting was studied following Burdet (1978). Even though these specimens have been studied by Todaro there is no evidence concerning the date of herborization, therefore this material cannot be considered as original. For this reason, neotypes are proposed for all the names published by Todaro which are based on specimens that match the morphological features described in the protologues.