Penstemon miniatus var. townsendianus (Straw) C.C.Freeman, comb. &, 2017

Freeman, Craig C., 2017, Nomenclatural novelties and notes in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae), PhytoKeys 80, pp. 33-39 : 35-36

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.80.12962

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scientific name

Penstemon miniatus var. townsendianus (Straw) C.C.Freeman, comb. &
status

stat. nov.

Penstemon miniatus var. townsendianus (Straw) C.C.Freeman, comb. & stat. nov.

Basionym.

Penstemon apateticus subsp. townsendianus Straw, Bol. Soc. Bot. México 24: 44. 1959.

Type.

MÉXICO. CHIHUAHUA: collected in the Sierra Madres near Colonia Garcia, altitude 8000 ft, 1 Aug 1899, C.H.T. Townsend & C.M. Barber 211 (holotype: US, US00122217 [ US website image]; isotypes: A, A00091591 [GH website image], F, F0072655F [F website image], GH, GH00091522 [GH website image], MO, MO-155224 [MO website image], NDG, NDG45616 View Materials [JSTOR image], NY, NY00130562 [NY website image], US, US01100658 [ US website image]; probable isotype: NY, NY00130561 [NY website image]) .

Straw (1959) designated US sheet number 568154 (= US 00122217) as the holotype. He cited a second specimen at US as an isotype; that specimen is US sheet number 347089 (= US 01100658). The label on NY00130561 does not bear the collector’s name or number; it was collected 5 mi SE of Colonia Garcia at an altitude of 7500 ft. Straw annotated the specimen as being Townsend and Barber 211 .