Caladium nymphaeifolium Vent. in Mag

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 98-100

11. Caladium nymphaeifolium Vent. in Mag . Encycl. 4: 471. 1801 [cited in Descr. Pl. Nouv.: sub tab. 30. 1801].

Lectotypus (designated here): [ INDONESIA]: “ Wali Ila ”, (Rheede, Hort. Malab. 9: tab. 22. 1689).

= Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott

Notes. – Despite a search for original material of this species at G and P, no collection has been located. The name Caladium nymphaeifolium was validated by Ventenat in Descriptions in 1801 in the text below the description of Caladium bicolor (Ait.) Vent. with no illustration but with a clear reference to Hortus Malabricus vol. 9 ( Rheede, 1689): “une espèce que j’ai trouvée dans l’herbier Jussieu, qui est figurée dans le IXème vol. de l’Hort. Malabar., t. 22, et à laquelle j’ai donné le nom de nymphaeifolium .” [“a species that I found in the Jussieu herbarium, which is illustrated in the ninth vol. of the Hort. Malabar., t. 22, and to which I gave the name of nymphaeifolium .”]. Until original material is located, we designate tab. 22 in Rheede (1689) as the lectotype.