Myrcia bicolor Kiaerskou (1893: 65)

Santos, Matheus F., Sano, Paulo T. & Lucas, Eve, 2016, Lectotypifications of some Nineteenth Century names and other nomenclatural updates in Myrcia s. l. (Myrtaceae), Phytotaxa 257 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

2. Myrcia bicolor Kiaerskou (1893: 65)

Type:— BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Floresta da Tijuca [“Brésil (Rio Jan.) Floresta da Tijuca” on label], 20 November 1878 (fl.), Glaziou 10797 (lectotype C [ C 10015825]! designated here, isolectotypes BR!, C [ C 10015826]!, F!, K!, LE!, NY!, P!, R!, US!). Figure 3 .

There are two sheets of Myrcia bicolor at C, both bearing the author’s handwriting (“ Myrcia (Aulomyrcia) bicolor ”). Aulomyrcia is the subgenus where the author placed the species ( Kiaerskou 1893). The leaf illustrated in the protologue (Tab. V, f; Kiaerskou 1893) was drawn from the lectotype ( Figure 3 ); a draft of the illustration is attached to the sheet. The locality present in some labels of the type collection (“Province de R. J. Floresta da Tijuca”, i.e., the Tijuca Forest in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil) matches the species distribution and is considered to be the type locality.

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FIGURE 3. Lectotype of Myrcia bicolor Kiaerskou (Glaziou 10797, C [C10015825]). Reproduced with permission of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.