Solanum lobulatum O.E. Schulz, 1575

Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1), pp. 65-84 : 83

Solanum lobulatum O.E. Schulz in Urb., Symb. Ant. 6: 247. 1909

Type: St. Vincent and the Grenadines. St. Vincent: Morne Garou , 960 m., H.H. Smith & G.W. Smith 1575 (lectotype, K [ K000196493 ] , designated here).

Distribution. Only known from montane areas on the island of St. Vincent, at approximately 1000 m elevation.

Representative specimen. St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Howard & al. 17711 (BM, NY).

Schulz did not cite a herbarium when describing Solanum lobulatum , and no sheet of Smith & Smith 1575 is extant at B. The K duplicate of this collection is here designated the lectotype ( Fig. 6d ) as no other duplicates have been found, but are likely to exist. Solanum lobulatum was described from sterile material, Schulz (1909) stated that the specimen he examined was annotated “we have only seen one root”; from the morphology of the specimen at K it is clear that this is a juvenile individual with a single stem.

Figures

Fig. 6. a, lectotype of Solanum miragoanae Urb.,Ekman 7289 (S04-2952) (= S.tetramerum). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; b, lectotype of S. tetramerum Dunal var. fuertesii O.E. Schulz, Fuertes 284 (NY00111372) (= S. tetramerum Dunal). Reproduced with permission of the New York Botanical Garden; c, lectotype of S. tetramerum var. luxurians O.E. Schulz, Ekman H.9979 (S04-2827) (= S. tetramerum Dunal). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; d, lectotype of S. lobulatum O.E. Schulz, Smith & Smith 1575 (K000196493) (= S. urens Dunal). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew.