Viscum meyeri Y.Sosnovsky, Krasylenko & Nachychko, 2021

Sosnovsky, Yevhen, Krasylenko, Yuliya & Nachychko, Viktor, 2021, Viscum meyeri (Viscaceae) - a new name for Viscum anceps, an old-established mistletoe species endemic to southern Africa, Phytotaxa 523 (4), pp. 284-290 : 288

Viscum meyeri Y.Sosnovsky, Krasylenko & Nachychko , nom. nov.

≡ Viscum anceps E.Mey. ex Sprague (1911: 404 , 407), nom. illeg. (replaced synonym), non Sprengel (1824 “1825”: 487).

Lectotype (first-step, designated by Wiens & Tölken 1979: 45; second-step, designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. “ Between Umtata River & St. Johns River, Pondoland ”, s.d., Drège s.n. ut “ Viscum anceps E.M. b. ” ( K [barcode K000431432 ; digital image!; mounted on the same sheet as two other specimens with barcodes K000431431 and K000431433; the high-quality image is available at http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000431432] ; isolectotypes: FR [barcode FR-0030400 ; digital image!] , HAL [barcode HAL0111235 ; digital image!] , HBG [barcode HBG-513689 ; digital image!] , K [barcode K000431434 ; digital image!; mounted on the same sheet as one other specimen with barcode K000431435] , P [barcodes P04956482 , P05065750 , P05455714 ; digital images!] , S [No. S12-23372 ; digital image!; mounted on the same sheet as one other specimen with No. S12-23371]).

— Viscum anceps Meyer in Drège (1843 –1844: 148, 149, 229), nom. nud.

— Aspidixia anceps E.Mey. ex Tieghem (1896: 193) , nom. nud.