Lycianthes ferruginea Bitter (1919: 339)

Dean, Ellen A. & Reyes, Miriam, 2018, Lectotypification of names in the genus Lycianthes (Solanaceae), Phytotaxa 349 (1), pp. 39-46 : 41

Lycianthes ferruginea Bitter (1919: 339)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— VENEZUELA. [Aragua]: Colonia Tovar, 6500 feet, Fendler 991 ( GOET barcode GOET003445 [digital photo!], isolectotypes BR barcode 000000552909 [digital photo!], G [cited by Bitter but not seen], K barcode K000585770 [digital photo!], K barcode K000585771 [digital photo!], MO barcode MO-503608 [digital photo!], MO barcode MO-503614 [digital photo!], NY barcode 00007287 [digital photo!], NY barcode 00007290 [digital photo!], PH barcode 00016310 [digital photo!]; image of the lectotype is available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.goet003445?searchUri=filter%3Dname% 26so%3Dps_group_by_genus_species%2Basc%26Query%3Dlycianthes%2Bferruginea) .

Nomenclatural notes:— Bitter (1919) cited three gatherings in the protologue: Fendler 991, Moritz 1642, and Gollmer s.n., and he cited the herbaria housing the specimens that he examined. We located most of the original material he cited and annotated at the herbaria B, BM, BR, G, GOET, and HBG: Fendler 991 ( GOET barcode GOET003445, BR barcode 000000552909, G [not seen]; Moritz 1642 (B [specimen not seen; F photo negative available # 2572!], BM barcode BM000799670 , HBG barcode HBG-511432); Gollmer s.n. (B [not seen; F photo negative not available]). The Fendler 991 specimen at GOET ( GOET barcode GOET003445) is selected here as the lectotype for the name Lycianthes ferruginea .

Taxonomic notes:— Lycianthes ferruginea is a Central and South American shrub or vine with brown, dendritic trichomes, a calyx structure that resembles the closely-related Lycianthes pauciflora ( Vahl 1797: 20) Bitter (1919: 341) , and white, entire corollas.