taxonID	type	description	language	source
AB25E219FF814F030594F41CE7F41267.taxon	description	Myrosma boliviana Loes. (1915) 270 (var. boliviana), syn. nov. — Type: E. H. G. Ule 9247 (holo B †, F negative 9850, photograph GH; lecto MO, selected here), Bolivia, Pando, Río Tarumano, Porvenir (“ Am Tarumano, Nebenfluss des Rio Madeira, im Walde bei Porvenir “), Jan. 1912. Myrosma boliviana Loes. var. acreana Loes. (1915) 270, syn. nov. — Type: E. H. G. Ule 9246 (holo B †; lecto G, selected here; isolecto K, US), Bolivia, Pando, Cobija (“ Im der Nähe des Rio Acre bei Cobija ”), Jan. 1912.	en	Maas, P. J. M., Borchsenius, F. (2012): Taxonomic revision of Myrosma (Marantaceae). Blumea 57 (2): 125-130, DOI: 10.3767/000651912X654218, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651912x654218
AB25E219FF814F030594F41CE7F41267.taxon	distribution	Distribution — Greater Antilles (Haiti, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), Lesser Antilles (St. Vincent), Colombia (Vichada), Trinidad, Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Bolívar, Cojedes, Guárico), Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Tocantins), Peru (Cuzco, San Martín, Loreto), Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz). In Brazil M. cannifolia is common in the central-northern region and in the central plateau. Habitat & Ecology — Mostly confined to savannah vegeta- tion where it usually grows near water courses. An exception occurs in Bolivia where the species is found in humid and shady environments. Notes — Myrosma cannifolia most resembles Saranthe unilateralis with which it shares the characters of strongly monosymmetric and compact inflorescence, and white to pale green, persistent bracts. However, M. cannifolia has a larger staminal appendage (6 by 3 mm vs 4 by 1.5 mm in S. unilateralis), smaller leaf blades (11 – 20 (– 31) by 1.7 – 8 cm vs 33.5 by 12 – 15 cm long), unequal outer staminodes (equal in S. unilateralis) and larger flowers (1 – 1.5 cm vs 0.8 – 1 cm long). Linnaeus f. (1782) mentioned only a single collection in his protologue of Myrosma cannifolia (C. G. Dahlberg 121). The specimen is found at LINN, being in perfect condition and agreeing completely with the original description. The type specimen is not numbered, but there is no doubt that this specimen is the holotype of the name and that the correct number of the collection is 121. Dahlberg was a Swedish soldier who collected for Linnaeus and who made in Suriname a collection of 186 plant specimens, which were first given to King Gustav III of Sweden and consequently, in 1774, transferred to Linnaeus (Stafleu & Cowan 1976: 588). During his fieldwork in Suriname Dahlberg made accurate field annotations, which were written down in his ‘ Catalogus der Vlessen, van de Boom, Struik, Plant en Rankgewassen, dewelke ik, in Spiritu vini bewaard heb’. This was a catalogue of all his collections, many of which were collected in spirit and which were later dried. Number 121 gives an extensive description in Dutch of the plant that is the type of M. cannifolia. The description starts (translated) with: “ This is the leaf, inflorescence, and root of a plantlet called Turara, the flowers are white, sprouting laterally from the side of the stalk … ”. The Dutch text by Dahlberg was many years later translated into English by J. E. Smith (1819) “ Gathered by Dalberg in Surinam. The root is creeping, with long hairy fibres … ” and at the end “ This was one of the plants which made a part of the Surinam collection, preserved in spirits, presented to Linnaeus by King Gustavus ”. Körnicke (1862) described Maranta cuyabensis (≡ Myrosma cuyabensis (Körn.) K. Schum.) based on two specimens from Central Brazil without a clear indication of a holotype. As diagnostic characters he cited narrowly elliptic leaf blades with narrower base and the glabrous or hirsute inflorescence peduncles. Indeed a number of specimens collected from cerrado and gallery forests from the Brazilian states of Goiás (e. g., H. S. Irwin et al. 34782 (NY )), Mato Grosso (e. g., G. Hatchbach 36149 (BR, C, GB, MBM, NY )) and southern Tocantins (e. g., G. Hatschbach et al. 56022 (C, GB, MBM, NY )) as well as the eastern part of the Department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia (e. g., W. W. Thomas et al. 5687 (GB, NY )) do have extremely narrow leaf blades. However, as no other characters distinguish these plants from typical M. cannifolia, we have chosen not to recognize this variation as a formal taxon. As lectotype of Maranta cuyabensis we have chosen Riedel 857, as this collection is more complete than the other syntype (A. L. P. da Silva Manso & J. Lhotsky 85). The original material studied by Körnicke was most likely located at BONN but destroyed in 1941. As lectotype we have instead chosen the duplicate at G.	en	Maas, P. J. M., Borchsenius, F. (2012): Taxonomic revision of Myrosma (Marantaceae). Blumea 57 (2): 125-130, DOI: 10.3767/000651912X654218, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651912x654218
AB25E219FF814F030594F41CE7F41267.taxon	description	Finally, study of the type specimen of Saranthe marcgravii, made from cultivated plants with origin in Central Brazil, as well as the original description and the excellent illustration provided by Pickel (1939) leave no doubt that this is identical to M. cannifolia.	en	Maas, P. J. M., Borchsenius, F. (2012): Taxonomic revision of Myrosma (Marantaceae). Blumea 57 (2): 125-130, DOI: 10.3767/000651912X654218, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651912x654218
