Replacement names and synonyms in Miconia (Melastomataceae: Miconieae)
Author
Michelangeli, Fabián A.
Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA. E-mail: fabian @ nybg. org
Author
Goldenberg, Renato
Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
text
Phytotaxa
2012
2012-04-30
52
1
29
32
http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.52.1.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.52.1.4
1179-3163
5060855
Miconia fictilis
(J.F.Macbr.) Michelang. & R.Goldenb.
,
comb. nov
.
Basionym:—
Icaria fictilis
Macbride (1929: 191)
. Type:—
PERU
.
Huánuco
:
Tambo
de Vaca
,
10–24 June 1923
(fl),
J
.
F
.
Macbride
4431
(
holotype
F
! [
F0040111
F
], isotypes
K
! [
K000536449
],
NY
! [
NY00228664
],
US
! [
US
00121261])
.
Icaria
was described by
Macbride (1929: 191)
as a monotypic genus in order to accommodate a taxon from the Peruvian Andes with what he thought had unusual anthers with “wings” on the side of the thecae. However, later on he admitted (
Macbride 1941
) that this species was probably well placed within
Miconia
section
Chaenopleura
(Richard ex
Candolle 1828: 197
) Triana ex Hooker (1867: 764)
given its short anthers that open by slits (with the wings beings the flaps of the opened anthers).
Wurdack (1972)
agreed with this assessment, but did not make the transfer into
Miconia
as he thought that this species needed to be compared to
M. grisea
Cogniaux (1908: 147)
and
M
.
nitida
(
Don 1823: 312
)
Naudin (1850: 244)
.
Miconia fictilis
has a puctiform stigma, while
M
.
nitida
and
M
.
grisea
have peltate to capitate stigma (
Cogniaux 1891
,
Macbride 1941
).
Miconia asclepiadea
Triana (1871: 121)
.
Acinodendron asclepiadeum
(Triana)
Kuntze (1891: 950)
. Type:—
COLOMBIA
.
Nariño
: Prope el Santissimo, inter Tuquerres et Barbacoas Novo-Granatensium,
J.J.Triana 4001
(
lectotype
BM!,
here designated
[BM000901217], isolectotype COL! [COL000003306]).
Syntypes
: —
COLOMBIA
.
Caldas
: in Andibus Quinduensibus prope Neira provincia
Antioquia
, 1900 ped., 1852–55,
J.J.Triana 4000
(BM! [BM000901216; mounted on the same sheet as
Triana 4001
], COL! [COL000016809], K! [K000536279; mounted on the same sheet as
André 3336,
K000536280, which is not a type]);
ECUADOR
.
Pichincha
: pariter in sylvis temperatis Andium Quitensium prope Nanegal,
Jameson 363
(BM! [BM000885944], K! [K000536281; mounted on the same sheet as
s.coll. 383
[K000536282] which is not a type]).
Miconia corazonica
Gilli (1981: 682)
. Type:—
ECUADOR
.
Cotopaxi
: El Corazon,
1400 m
,
28 June 1975
(fl),
A.Gilli 215
(
holotype
W!),
nom. illeg
., non
Miconia corazonica
Wurdack (1967: 35)
.
Miconia corazonica
Gilli
is a later homonym of
Miconia corazonica
Wurdack. Both
species were described from material from Cerro Corazon in
Ecuador
, but Wurdack’s species seems to be related to
Miconia hymenanthera
Triana (1871: 130)
, while Gilli’s species was placed in
Miconia
section
Glossocentrum
(
Crueger 1847: 20
) Triana ex J. D. Hooker (1867: 764)
and compared to
Miconia puberula
Cogniaux (1888: 386)
in the original description. Later,
Wurdack (1982)
suggested that Gilli’s species should be compared to
Miconia asclepiadea
, but he had not seen the
type
material, so he refrained from making any formal changes. Recent inspection of
Gilli 215
housed at W (http://herbarium.univie.ac.at/database/search.php) shows that this is indeed
Miconia asclepiadea
, therefore a replacement name is not needed.
In the original description of
Miconia asclepiadea
Triana (1871)
mentioned
three specimens
, two of his own from
Colombia
, and one collected by
Jameson
in
Ecuador
. The
BM
specimen,
Triana 4001
, is selected as the
lectotype
as this specimen is in flower
.