Agarista albiflora (B.Fedtsch. & Basil.) Judd (1984: 282)

Dalastra, Claudenice Hilda & Heiden, Gustavo, 2023, Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Agarista (Ericaceae, Vaccinioideae, Lyonieae), Phytotaxa 618 (1), pp. 1-17 : 3-4

1. Agarista albiflora (B.Fedtsch. & Basil.) Judd (1984: 282)

≡ Leucothoë albiflora Fedtschenko & Basilevskaja (1926: 23) .

Type:— COLOMBIA. Boyacá. Nr. Soatá, Apr. 1843, Linden 1322 (holotype LE00004360 , image!; isotypes BR0000006996383 , image!; F0055431 , image!; G, K000494458 , image!, K000494459 , image!, L0006611 , image!, MPU011519 , image!; NY00010131 , image!, P007715899 , image!, US00116786 , image!, W) .

= Leucothoë columbiana Sleumer (1935: 479) .

Type:— COLOMBIA. Magdalena: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, below, “El Manon” ca. 2100 m elevation, blooming 26 Feb. 1928, A.G.R. Schultze 1113 (holotype B †). Neotype:— COLOMBIA. Magdalena: San Sebastían de Rábago, R. Romero-Castañeda 867 ( COL000421468 , here designated, image!; isoneotype US02973529 !) .

Note:— Leucothoë columbiana was published as a new species by Sleumer (1935), and later synonymized by him ( Sleumer 1959) under L. albilfora . The type of L. columbiana is the collection A.G.R. Schultze 1113, originally deposited in the Berlin-Dahlem herbarium (B) and later destroyed by the fire in 1943. Posteriorly, the American species of Leucothoë were recombined in Agarista by Judd (1979, 1984), and L. columbiana , was regarded as a heterotypic synonym of Agarista albiflora . The paratype A. Schultze 1447 is indicated in the protologue and was also deposited in the Berlin-Dahlem herbarium (B), later destroyed too.

In TL II ( Stafleu & Cowan 2022), the herbaria usually used by A.G.R. Schultze for depositing materials and types are considered unknown.Thus, no remaining original material has been found so far. “El Manon” refers to an indigenous community below Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia. In Romero-Castañeda 867 of Leucothoë columbiana (COL000421468, US02973529), it is indicated that the specimen was “recollected” in Magdalena, San Sebastían de Rábago, a location below Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, at about 2000–2100 m above sea level. There is not enough information to infer with certainty if that locality corresponds to the original indicated in the protologue of L. columbiana , and if the indication of “recollected” refers to the collector’s intention to inform that it represents the same species collected by Shultze 1113 or 1447. Anyway, this collection of L. columbiana represents the best available specimen collected at the closest location as the holotype collection site and agrees with the circumscription of Ag. albiflora , the accepted name for L. columbina .

Therefore, we designated the specimen sheet COL000421468 as the neotype of the name Leucothoë columbiana following Arts. 9.8 and 9.11 of the ICN ( Turland et al., 2018) to fix the application of the name and to preserve the usage established by the previous typification according to Art. 9.16 ( Turland et al., 2018).