Passiflora moritziana Planchon

Svoboda, Harlan T., Macdougal, John M. & Ballard, Harvey E., 2016, Typifications and nomenclatural notes in Passiflora section Dysosmia (Passifloraceae), Phytotaxa 288 (2), pp. 101-119 : 114

12. Passiflora moritziana Planchon in Triana & Planchon, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 5(17): 175. 1873

≡ Passiflora foetida Linnaeus var. moritziana (Planchon) Killip in Pulle, Flora Suriname 3(1): 318. 1937.

Type: — VENEZUELA. [Aragua]: Colonia Tovar, no date, J. Moritz 437 (holotype P 00605763!).

Notes: —The name P. moritziana was published in a section of a journal authored by J. Triana and J. E. Planchon (1873), but was listed as an unpublished name attributed to Planchon (“Planch., mss.”). The correct author citation should, therefore, be written as “Planchon” in accordance with Art. 46.2 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012). A new combination using this basionym, P. foetida var. moritziana , was published by E. P. Killip in Pulle (1937), who validly published the name (McNeill et al. 2012: Art. 41.3) but incorrectly attributed the basionym to De Candolle. However, we have been unable to find any evidence that De Candolle ever published a name using moritziana . Killip corrected the author citation for this name in his 1938 monograph.

Killip (1938) listed duplicates of the type material to be at BM and K, with additional material found at FI by the authors, but those labels give different collection localities, namely “Caracas” ( K 000323448!, BM 000566157!, FI 004378!) and “La Ceiba” ( K 000323449!). Though they have the same collection number (“ 437 ”), they are not of the same gathering according to Art. 8.2 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012) and thus should not be considered isotypes.