Aspidosperma excelsum Benth., 1841

Castello, Ana Carolina Devides, Pereira, Andreza Stephanie De Souza, Shimizu, Gustavo Hiroaki, Zuntini, Alexandre Rizzo, Simões, André Olmos & Koch, Ingrid, 2022, Taxonomy and nomenclature of Aspidosperma (Apocynaceae), Phytotaxa 571 (3), pp. 239-277 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.571.3.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7295728

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scientific name

Aspidosperma excelsum Benth.
status

 

Aspidosperma excelsum Benth. View in CoL View at ENA in J. Bot. 3: 245. 1841.

Macaglia excelsa (Benth.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. View in CoL 2: 416. 1891.

Lectotype (designated by Morales & Zamora in Phytoneuron 2017–68: 8. 2017):— GUYANA. [Upper Demerara-Berbice]: Berbice , 1837, Rob. Schomburgk [ser. 1] 468 ( K [barcode K000975141 image!]; isolectotypes: G [barcode G00143962 image!, barcode G00169287 image!, barcode G00169288 image!], K [barcode K000587685 image!], L [barcode L0931170 image!], MO [barcode MO-2958572], P [barcode P00645106 image!], RB [barcode 00535040!], SING [barcode SING0069604 image!], TCD [barcode TCD0006575 image!], W [No. W0048499 image!]). B†, F negative No. 4409 image! .

Notes —To avoid any future misinterpretation about collection information, we believe it is important to state that the original gathering of A. excelsum corresponds to Robert Schomburgk’s first collection series ( van Dam 2002).

van Dam, J. A. C. (2002) The Guyanan plant collections of Robert and Richard Schomburgk. In: Jansen-Jacobs, M. J. (Ed.) Flora of the Guianas, Supplementary series, fasc. 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, pp. 1 - 211.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Apocynaceae

Genus

Aspidosperma