Anthericum bulbine Houtt.,

Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 155-198 : 169

9. Anthericum bulbine Houtt.,

Nat. Hist. II(12): Aanwyz. Plaat. [2], 353, tab. 80, fig. 3. 1780.

Lectotypus (designated here by Veldkamp & Callmander): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape, Auge s.n. [?] ( G-PREL [ G00818006 ]!; probable isolecto-: G-PREL [ G00818007 , G00818008 ]!).

= Pontederia stricta Burm. f., Fl. Ind. ( Prodr. Fl. Cap. ): 9. 1768. ≡ Onixotis stricta (Burm. f.) Wijnands in Bothalia 21: 157. 1991. ≡ Wurmbea stricta (Burm. f.) J.C. Manning & Vinn. in Taxon 56: 177. 2007.

Lectotypus (first step designated by WIJNANDS, 1991: 157; second step designated here by Wijnands & Callmander): SOUTH AFRICA: Cape, Auge s.n. ( G-PREL [ G00818007 ]!; probable isolecto-: G-PREL [ G00818006 , G00818008 ]!).

Notes. – The lectotype of Anthericum bulbine is in the Cape herbarium, probably collected by Auge ( WIJNANDS, 1991: 157; 1992: 499). We may never be certain whether Houttuyn’s name is a later heterotypic synonym, as it is probably also based on an Auge specimen. It is not a nom. provisorium, because although he indicated that “Possibly [!] the Cape plant will belong to one of the species mentioned”, he did accept it ( MCNEILL et al., 2012: Art. 36.1). A second step lectotypification of Pontederia stricta is made here as two collections are present in the Burman herbarium in G-PREL [G00818007, G00818008].