Codia spatulata Brongn. F Gris

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17. Codia spatulata Brongn. F Gris

Bull. Soc. bot. France 9: 77 (1862).

Pfeifferago spatulata (Brongn. F Gris) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 227 (1891), as “ spathulata ”.

Type (as given in protologue): “circa Balade (Vieillard, n. 589)”. — Lectotype (here designated): Balade, 1855- 60, Vieillard 589 ( P!; iso-, P! [excl. Herb. Caens).

Three sheets of Vieillard 589 from Balade at P all give the date 1855-1860. The material on two appears to be from the same gathering and is chosen as the lectotype and isolectotype. The third sheet (Herb. Caen) is probably from a separate gathering and is excluded from being an isolectotype .

In the protologue, BRONGNIART F GRIS used the spelling spatulata which was altered by both KUNTZE (1891) and GUILLAUMIN (1941, 1948) to spathulata . STEARN (1973) gives both spathulatus and spatulatus in his vocabulary, and there is no reason to reject the original spelling ( R. K. BRUMMITT pers. comm.).

GUILLAUMIN (1941, 1948) treated C. arborea , C. obcordata and C. spatulata as distinct, but I have been unable to find consistent differences between them. As both obcordata and spatulata were published in BRONGNIART F GRIS (1862), they have equal priority and I am using the name C. spatulata for this taxon.