Luehea splendens Rusby (1896: 12) .

Lectotype (designated here):— BOLIVIA. Guanai-Tipuani, April-June 1892, Bang 1339 (NY! [NY00415484]; isolectotypes A! [A00052367]; BM! [BM013823825]; E! [E00265867], [E00265868]; F! [V0073978F], [V0073979F]; G! [G00357091], [G00357092]; GH! [GH00052366], [GH00052368]; K! [K000381814]; M! [M0210160]; MICH! [MICH1115322]; MIN! [MIN1001656]; MO! [MO309033]; NY! [NY00415482], [NY00415483]; PH! [PH00016005]; US! [US00098635], [US00535080], [US00535081], [US00535082]).

Rusby (1896) cited the specimen Bang 1339 as the type of Luehea splendens, using the material from several herbaria, mainly from the K and LGO. Currently, the latter is included in the NY collection, where Rusby worked (Stafleu & Cowan 1976 –1988: 997) and has three duplicates of Bang 1339. Therefore, according to Arts. 9.3 and 9.4 of the ICN, we designate here, among the syntypes, the specimen NY [NY00415484] with the label written by Bang and Rusby as the lectotype of L. splendens .