Microlobius foetidus (Jacq.) M. Sousa & G. Andrade, Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton . Mexico , Bot. 63(1): 104. 1992.

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1.1 Microlobius foetidus (Jacq.) M. Sousa & G. Andrade, Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mexico, Bot. 63(1): 104. 1992.

Mimosa foetida Jacq., Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 73. 1798. Type. [illustration] " Mimosa foetida T. 390" in Jacquin, Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3, t. 390. 1798 (lectotype, designated here).

Inga foetida (Jacq.) Willd., Sp. Pl. Editio quarta 4(2): 1008. 1806.

Acacia foetida (Jacq.) Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.) 6: 265. 1823.

Piptadenia foetida (Jacq.) Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30(3): 366. 1875.

Goldmania foetida (Jacq.) Standl., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23(2): 354. 1922.

Microlobius mimosoides C. Presl, Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. ser. 5, 3: 497. 1845. Type. Mexico. Habitat in Mexico, 1791, Haenke s.n. (holotype: PRC 452782!).

Goldmania platycarpa Rose, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 4: 274. 1903. Type. Mexico, Culiacan, Sinaloa, 19 Mar 1899, E.A. Goldman 371 (holotype: US360292! [catalog] US00001026! [barcode], isotype: GH00066208!).

Piptadenia platycarpa (Rose) J.F. Macbr., Contr. Gray Herb. 59: 18. 1919.

Notes.

The protologue of Mimosa foetida (" crescit in India Occidentali. In caldario floret Junio & Julio ") suggests that Jacquin had the plant growing in a heated greenhouse in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. However, it is not possible to know whether he based his description on a dried specimen from the Americas or on the plant cultivated in Vienna. According to Stafleu and Cowan (1979), Jacquin "certainly made herbarium material of Austrian plants and plants in the gardens under his care" and they "are present in small numbers in a number of herbaria". His West Indies samples (which were acquired by Sir Joseph Banks), however, are very difficult to locate and it is not known if Jacquin made sizeable collections there; his specimens in the Banks herbarium (BM) are rare and consist of fragmentary specimens ( Stafleu and Cowan 1979). The origin of the seeds that arrived in Vienna is also questionable, as there are currently no records of the species occurring in the Antilles, and the seeds were most probably gathered in eastern Mexico. We were unable to find any specimen that could be recognized as a type in the herbaria listed by Stafleu and Cowan (1979) and other collections, confirming Sousa and Andrade´s (1992) previous searches (" holotipo W, no encontrado "). For this reason, we select the colored plate accompanying the description of the species as the lectotype of Mimosa foetida .

Based on variable features and a very small sample of South American plants, Sousa and Andrade (1992) recognized the North/Central and South American disjunct populations of the genus as two subspecies (Fig. 7 ). It is not our objective to evaluate infraspecific taxa, so we opted to maintain the circumscription of Microlobius foetidus as currently accepted.

1.1.1 Microlobius foetidus (Jacq.) M. Sousa & G. Andrade subsp. foetidus .

Figures

Figure 7. Distribution of Microlobius foetidus.