Magnolia ashei Weatherby (1926: 35–36)

García-Morales, Leccinum J., Iamonico, Duilio & Jiménez, Jesús García, 2017, Nomenclatural remarks on Magnolia sect. Macrophylla (Magnoliaceae), with description of a new species from North America (Tamaulipas, Mexico), Phytotaxa 309 (3), pp. 238-244 : 242

Magnolia ashei Weatherby (1926: 35–36) . Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei (Weath.) Spongberg (1976: 268) .

Magnolia macrophylla var. ashei (Weath.) Johnson (1989: 55) .

Type (lectotype, here designated):— USA. Florida: Okaloosa County, Rogue Creek, 26 April 1925, Ashe s.n. (NCU-00013159, image of the lectotype available at http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/types.htm).

Nomenclatural notes: ―The protologue of Magnolia ashei ( Weatherby 1926: 35–36) consists of a detailed diagnosis and comparison with the related M. macrophylla . Weatherby (l.c.) listed some specimens collected in Florida. Among them, he reported: “ FLORIDA, Okaloosa County: three 25 ft. high, or shrubby, Rogue Creek, April 26 and June 6, 1925, Ashe ( TYPE in herb. Ashe), two sheets” (specimens available at http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/types.htm, NCU, and https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00734812, P). According to Art. 40.1, despite the two gatherings, the name is validly published since it was published after 1958. The two specimens at NCU and P are syntypes (Art. 9.5). We here designate the specimen at NCU as the lectotype of the name Magnolia ashei because it is better preserved, matches the diagnosis and clearly corresponds to the current concept of this taxon ( Vázquez-García et al. 2015, 2016).

The other specimens cited by Weatherby (1926: 35) can be found at A (http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap. specimen.a00017351) and NO (http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.no0109793).

Selected specimens examined: ― USA, Florida: Gadsden County, 29 April 1951, Kurz T-24 (FSU-000016127) ; Jackson County, 6 air mi SSW of Marianna , 3 October 2011, Anderson 25860 (FSU-000070662) ; Leon County: 22 July 1975, Clewell 4803 (FSU-000016144) ; Liberty County: 29 April 1951, Kurz T-11 (FSU-000016118) ; 11 May 1993, Anderson 14265 (FSU-000016112); Okaloosa County, Rogue Creek , 1925, McKee s.n. (A-00017351) ; Rogue Creek , 26 April 1926, McKee & Ashe s.n. (NO-0109793) ; Rogue Creek , 6 June 1926, Ashe s.n. (P-00734812) ; Eglin Air Force Reservation , 13 July 1967, Smith 1704 (FSU-000016119) ; Santa Rosa County, 4 October 1967, Godfrey 63935 (FSU-000016125) ; Wakulla County, 29 April 1951, Kurz s.n. (FSU-000016123 ; 21 August 1951, Kurz s.n. (FSU-000016114); Walton County: 4 May 1984, Godfrey 81274 (FSU-000016120) ; 29 April 1951, Kurz T-22 (FSU-000016122); Washington County , 8 June 1980, Anderson 12895 (FSU-000016137) .