Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.542.2.6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6417886 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7830D344-FF9F-FF68-B5E6-3A50210E02C1 |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225) |
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Eperua leucantha Bentham (1870: 225) View in CoL
Lectotype (designated by Cowan 1975): — BRAZIL. Amazonas : Rio Negro, moist forest at Uanauaca, January 1852, R. Spruce 2021 (K[000555107] image!; isolectotypes P[00835936] image!, P[00835937] image!).
Residual syntypes:— BRAZIL. Amazonas : Secus Rio Negro , Brasiliae borealis, inter Barcellos et San Gabriel, December 1851, R. Spruce 2021 (BM[000952281] image!, G[00365211] image!, G[00365212] image!, GH[00103029] image!, K[000555106] image!, M[0215263] image!, P[00835935] image!, W[18890110107] image!) .
The original collection cited by Bentham (1870) for E. leucantha, Spruce 2021 , combined collections made in two different dates: December 1851 and January 1852. However, in order to comprise a single gathering the specimens need to be collected on the same date ( Turland et al. 2018). Thus, Spruce 2021 must be considered two different collections. As Bentham (1870) did not specify the collection date of Spruce 2021, the exsiccate K000555107 with a handwritten annotation by Spruce is not the holotype as informed by Cowan (1975). We correct here Cowan’s use of holotype to lectotype.
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