Daltonia hookeriana U.B.Deshmukh, S.Majumdar & B.C.Ho, 2022

Deshmukh, Umakant Bhoopati, Majumdar, Shuvadeep & Ho, Boon-Chuan, 2022, Daltonia hookeriana, a new name for Daltonia heterophylla (Wilson ex Mitt.) B. C. Ho & L. Pokorny (Daltoniaceae, Bryophyta), Phytotaxa 538 (1), pp. 84-86 : 84

Daltonia hookeriana U.B.Deshmukh, S.Majumdar & B.C.Ho nom. nov.

Basionym: Mniadelphus heterophyllus Wilson ex Mitt., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot., Suppl. 1(2): 144. 1859 ( Mitten 1859).

≡ Distichophyllum heterophyllum (Wilson ex Mitt.) Paris, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 49(2): 65. 1895 ( Paris 1895).

≡ Daltonia heterophylla (Wilson ex Mitt.) B.C.Ho & L.Pokorny, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 170(2): 172. 2012, nom. illeg., non Daltonia heterophylla (Brid.) Arn., Disp. Méth. Mousses 55 ( Arnott, 1825).

Type:— NEPAL, Nangli [‘Sikkim’], 10,000 ft., J.D. Hooker 690 (holotype: NY! [barcode 1185189]; isotype: L! [barcode 0835784]). [Details and discussion on the type are provided in Ho et al. (2012: 172); duplicate in BM excluded]

Etymology: Named after the type collector Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), a British botanist and explorer, who served as the second director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker.

Distribution: Nepal (type) and China (Yunnan: D.G. Long 33796 (E!) [sample used for analysis in Ho et al. 2012)]. Sikkim is excluded, see label of the type ( Fig. 1 ) and discussion in Ho et al. (2012: 172)

Figures

FIGURE 1. Holotype of Mniadelphus heterophyllus Wilson ex Mitt.NY-Hb Mitten with label information indicating that it was collected from Nangli, a locality in Nepal instead of Sikkim © Image courtesy of the C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium.