Pauridia pygmaea Snijman & Kocyan, 2013

Snijman, Deirdre A. & Kocyan, Alexander, 2013, The genus Pauridia (Hypoxidaceae) amplified to include Hypoxis sect. Ianthe, Saniella and Spiloxene, with revised nomenclature and typification, Phytotaxa 116 (1), pp. 19-33 : 29

Pauridia pygmaea Snijman & Kocyan , nom. nov.

Bas.:— Helonias minuta Linnaeus (1771: 225) Ξ Fabricia minuta (L.) Thunberg (1779: 25) Ξ Hypoxis minuta (L.)

Linnaeus f. (1782: 197) Ξ Ianthe minuta (L.) Williams (1901: 292) Ξ Spiloxene minuta (L.) Fourcade (1932: 76).

Type (neotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Cape], ( LINN! No. 427.12 [image]) (McNeil et al. 2012: Art.

7.4)

Typification:—In the protologue of Helonias minuta, Linnaeus (1771) referred to a collection by Koenig [König], but no original material has been traced ( Jarvis 2007). The neotype designated here, (LINN No. 427.12), which bears the name Hypoxis minuta in Linnaeus filius’ hand, clearly matches Linnaeus’ (1771) protologue of Helonias minuta . The plant on sheet 427.12 has been mounted with the base of the corm facing upwards to reveal its truncate base and distinct, broad basal rim, above which the fibrous tunics converge towards the narrow neck. This distinctively shaped corm, which matches the description in the protologue, is unique to the species. Given that the epithet is occupied in Pauridia minuta Durand & Schinz (1894: 142) , the species is newly named Pauridia pygmaea .

Note:—We agree with Thompson (1979) that Fabricia minuta does not constitute a synonym of Pauridia minuta , as given by Geerinck (1969), since the plant under this name has six stamens, unlike the threestamened P. minuta . Hence the name F. minuta is treated here as a synonym of Pauridia pygmaea . Fabricia minuta was incorrectly assigned to the genus Fabricia Thunb. which, following the typification of the genus by Bullock (1962), is a synonym of Empodium Salisb. Linnaeus (1771) incorrectly included Helonias minuta in his genus Helonias (1753: 342) , the type of which is Helonias bullata Linnaeus (1753: 342) that falls within the family Melanthiaceae Batsch.