Pauridia serrata (Thunb.) Snijman & Kocyan, 2013

Snijman, Deirdre A. & Kocyan, Alexander, 2013, The genus Pauridia (Hypoxidaceae) amplified to include Hypoxis sect. Ianthe, Saniella and Spiloxene, with revised nomenclature and typification, Phytotaxa 116 (1), pp. 19-33 : 29-30

Pauridia serrata (Thunb.) Snijman & Kocyan , comb. nov.

Ξ Spiloxene serrata (Thunb.) Garside (1936: 268)

Bas.:— Fabricia serrata Thunberg (1779: 29) Ξ Hypoxis serrata (Thunb.) Linnaeus f. (1782: 197) Ξ Ianthe serrata (Thunb.) Salisbury (1866: 44) . Type (lectotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Cape] Cap. b. Spei, Thunberg s.n. (UPS-THUNB! No. 8262 [image]). Two sheets included amongst Thunberg’s collection at UPS are annotated ‘ Hypoxis serrata ’. All the plants mounted on sheet 8262 most consistently represent the characteristics given in Thunberg’s protologue.

= Ianthe dielsiana Nel (1914: 293) Ξ Spiloxene dielsiana (Nel) Garside (1936: 268) Ξ Hypoxis dielsiana (Nel) Geerinck (1969: 78) , syn. nov. Type (holotype):— SOUTH AFRICA, [Northern Cape], Karroofläche südostlich Calvinia, 800– 900 m, 15 September 1900, Diels 696 (B! No. 100089226 [image])

= Spiloxene namaquana Müller-Doblies et al. (2011: 326) , syn. nov. Type (holotype):— SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape, Grootvlei , ca. 3.5 km W of N7 (from the T-junction 5 km S of Kamieskroon), ca. 750 m, 19 August 1988, Müller-Doblies 88110c (PRE, isotypes B, BTU, G, K, KMG, LD, M, NBG, WIND, Z)

Note:— Spiloxene serrata exhibits a wide range of variation over its geographic distribution, especially with regard to corm covering and leaf width. Nel (1914) originally described Ianthe dielsiana , as differing from S. serrata by the root-entangled corms and the narrower, apparently terete leaves. These characteristics recur in randomly scattered populations throughout the widespread geographic range of S. serrata , hence both S. dielsiana and the recently described S. namaquana are treated here as conspecific with S. serrata , now known as Pauridia serrata . Fabricia serrata was incorrectly assigned to the genus Fabricia Thunb. which, based on the typification of the genus by Bullock (1962), is a synonym of Empodium Salisb.