Myrcia forsteri (O.Berg) Molino & G.P.Burton

Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, Adansonia (3) 44 (26), pp. 345-903 : 612

[1289] Myrcia forsteri (O.Berg) Molino & G.P.Burton

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 107: 108 (Burton et al. 2022). — Calyptranthes forsteri O.Berg , Linnaea 27 (1): 23 [“1854” publ. Nov. 1855] (Berg 1855). — Chytraculia forsteri (O.Berg) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 238 [5 Nov. 1891] (Kuntze 1891). — Myrcia neoforsteri A.R.Lourenço & E.Lucas, Phytotaxa 373 (1): 75 [23 Oct. 2018] ( Lourenço & Lucas 2018), nom. illeg. superfl. (based on Calyptranthes forsteri ).

NOTES. — Lourenço et al. (2018) transferred the majority of continental American species of Calyptranthes to Myrcia to reflect the paraphyly of the former genus and modern infra-generic arrangement of the latter ( Lucas et al. 2018). Among these new names, some turned out to be illegitimate as homonyms of older names in Myrcia (e.g. Lima et al. 2020) or, as here, because the original preference for a name significantly different from existing Myrcia fosteri Croat ( Croat 1974) would not be supported by the approach to homonyms of the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature ( Turland et al. 2018). The appropriate combination is therefore made here.

HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 4 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: R.A.A. Oldeman B-2825, 10 m × 40 cm.