Pachira glabra Pasq., Rendiconto Reale Accad. Sci. Fis. 7: 18. 1868.

Carvalho-Sobrinho, Jefferson, Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko & Dorr, Laurence J., 2021, Notes on Brazilian Pachira (Malvaceae, Bombacoideae) II: Additional typifications and new synonymies, PhytoKeys 186, pp. 53-72 : 53

Pachira glabra Pasq., Rendiconto Reale Accad. Sci. Fis. 7: 18. 1868.

Fig. 2D

Bombax glabrum (Pasq.) A. Robyns, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 30: 474. 1960. Bombacopsis glabra (Pasq.) A. Robyns, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 33: 207. 1963. Pochota glabra (Pasq.) Bullock, Kew Bull. 20: 528. 1966.

Pachira oleagina Decne., Ann. Gén. Hort. 23: 49. 1881? [1880]. Bombax oleaginum (Decne.) A. Robyns, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 29: 26. 1959. Type: Algeria. Jardin du Hamma, près d’Algers, 1879 (lf, fl), Ch. Rivière s.n. (neotype, designated here: P barcode 02286303; isoneotypes: P barcode 02286301, P barcode 02286302 [= F neg. no. 35351]).

Bombax anisophyllum Buxb., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 73: 121. 1924. Type: Brazil. Paraná, Antonina, 1904 (lf, fl), M. Wacket s.n. (lectotype, designated here: WU 0073137; isolectotypes: W barcode 19240009283, WU 0073138).

Type.

Algeria. Jardin du Hamma, près d’Algers, 1879 (lf, fl), Ch. Rivière s.n. (neotype, designated here: P barcode 02286303; isoneotypes: P barcode 02286301, P barcode 02286302 [= F neg. no. 35351]) .

Note.

Robyns (1960) established that there is no extant original material of Pachira glabra . He then neotypified (first step) the names P. glabra and P. oleaginea with the same collection (i.e., “Rivière s.n."). This collection is represented by three sheets in Paris (P), all three of which were labeled “Neotypus” by Robyns. The three sheets are not marked as being part of the same specimen and we interpret them as duplicates of a single gathering (see Turland et al. 2018; Art. 8.3). Accordingly, we designate here one of the three sheets as the neotype (second step) for the names P. glabra and P. oleaginea . One of the isoneotypes (P barcode 02286301) has a faint pencil sketch of the fruit that was labeled by Decaisne "fructus maturus magnif. nat."

The labels on the neotype and one of the two isoneotypes indicate that the collection was made by "Cl. Ch. Rivière” where “Cl.” is Latin for clarissimus (i.e., distinguished). The latter label also has the initial “A.” added below this name, presumably a reference to A. Rivière who, however, was deceased before the collection was made. The horticulturists and brothers [Marie] Auguste Rivière (1821-1877) and Charles Marie Rivière (b. 1845) were successive directors of the Jardin du Hamma, the latter succeeding the former ( Stafleu and Cowan 1983).

Figures

Figure 2. Pachira species A P. aquatica fruit B P. duckei fruit C P. endecaphylla leaves and flower D P. glabra leaves and flower E P. retusa habit F P. retusa leaves and fruit. Photographs A, D J. G. Carvalho-Sobrinho B C. E. Zartman C B. A. S. Pereira E M. C. Machado F L. P. Queiroz.