Pauridia alticola 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 : 24

Pauridia alticola Snijman & Kocyan , nom. nov.

Bas.:— Forbesia occidentalis Nel (1914: 289) Ξ Saniella occidentalis (Nel) Burtt (2000: 69) . Type (lectotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Northern Cape], Hantam Geb[ied], 1869, Meyer s.n. (B! No. 100089229 [image]) (McNeil et al. 2012: Art. 7.4). In B only one sheet collected by Meyer has been annotated by Nel as ‘ Forbesia occidentalis’. Nel’s protologue; fails to indicate the number of the exsiccatum in B, thus this sheet is designated a lectotype.

Note:— Bullock (1962) correctly treated Forbesia Ecklon ex Nel (1914: 243) , a later homonym for Forbesia Johnson (1912: 177) , as a synonym of Empodium Salisb. Due to several important morphological differences from the other species of Forbesia , namely white (not yellow) flowers and V-shaped (not plicate) leaves, Forbesia occidentalis was subsequently transferred into Saniella ( Burtt 2000) . Since the epithet ‘occidentalis’ is taken up in the Australian species with the basionym Hypoxis occidentalis Bentham (1873: 451) , we assign a new name to this previously much misunderstood species from Northern Cape, South Africa.