Solanum coelocalyx Alain

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 : 76

Solanum coelocalyx Alain , Phytologia 22: 170. 1971

Type: Dominican Republic. Constanza, El Motanzo , A.H. Liogier & E.J. Marcano 14716 ( holotype, NY [ NY00111376 ]; isotypes, BM [BM000886620], F [F- 1773526], GH [GH00231758]).

Distribution. Endemic to the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic in moist areas in montane pine forest from 1200-1400 m elevation.

Representative specimen. Dominican Republic. Prov. La Vega, Zanoni & al. 23215 (JBSD).

The sheet of Fuertes 1890 at A ( Fig. 4a ) is the only duplicate of the type collection I have been able to trace, and thus I have chosen it as the lectotype of Solanum orthacanthum .

Figures

Fig. 4. a, lectotype of Solanum orthacanthum O.E. Schulz, Fuertes 1890 (A00077559). Reproduced with permission of Harvard University,Cambridge,Massachusetts,USA;b, lectotype of S. pachyneurum O.E.Schulz var.glabrescens O.E.Schulz,Wright 382 p.p.(left hand stems of GH00112906) (= S. pachyneuroides). Reproduced with permission of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; c, lectotype of S. pachyneurum O.E. Schulz,Linden 1944 (K000196232). Reproduced with permission of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; d, lectotype of S. polygamum Vahl var. thomae O. Kuntze, Kuntze 36 (NY0074477) (= S. polygamum). Reproduced with permission of the New York Botanical Garden.