Chrozophora brocchiana Visiani (1836a: 223

Clementi, Moreno, D’Antraccoli, Marco & Miola, Antonella, 2019, Nomenclatural and taxonomical notes on some taxa described by Roberto de Visiani from Egypt and Sudan, Phytotaxa 399 (1), pp. 49-64 : 60

Chrozophora brocchiana Visiani (1836a: 223 ; also treated in Visiani 1836b: 39; 1836c: 69), “ Crozophora ”

Locus classicus: —“in deserto prope Nedi in regno Berber Nubiae”.

Lectotype (designated here):— SUDAN. Sennaar [Sannâr], s.d., Brocchi s.n. (PI005429!) (see Fig. 8).

Note:—From Brocchi’s own posthumous journal ( Brocchi 1843), as well as from historical maps, we could determine that the locus classicus refers to an area named “Nadi”, some eighty kilometres north of the town of Berber along the river Nile, where there used to be a village with the common toponym of “Al Bageir”, i.e. “resting place”, “baghiri” in Brocchi (1843).

As is the case for T. sedifolia , the indication on the label is much more generic. Nevertheless, since it was recognised by the author ( Visiani 1836a) as pertaining to C. brocchiana , we believe the specimen is particularly suitable as a lectotype. This name is sometimes incorrectly reported as published by Visiani under the genus Croton Linnaeus (1753: 1004 ; e.g. Euro+Med 2018), or as published as a new species in the genus Crozophora Necker ex A. Jussieu (1824: 27) by Schweinfurth (1862: 9).