Solanum maestrense Urb., 2009

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 : 74

Solanum maestrense Urb. , Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 221. 1925

Type: Cuba. Oriente: Sierra Maestra , on the water divide between Rio Yara and Río Palmamocha , at the foot of Loma Joaquim , on the slope towards Rio Palmamocha , 19 Jul 1922, E. Ekman 14456 (lectotype, S [ S04-2941 ], designated here; isolectotype, S [S04- 2942]).

Distribution. Endemic to Cuba, known only from the type.

Representative specimen. Cuba, Oriente, Ekman 14456 (S).

It is clear from the protologue that Urban did not have at his disposal a specimen with a flower (“flores non vidi”, Urban, 1925), and that he was describing this species from material in B that is no longer extant. The two rather scrappy sheets at S are both annotated “type”, but only one (S04-2941) has reproductive parts (one flower and two fruits in the packet). This sheet ( Fig. 3c ) is chosen here as the lectotype.

Figures

Fig. 3. a, lectotype of Solanum drymophilum O.E Schulz,Sintenis 2374 (BM000886627) (= S.ensifolium Dunal).Reproduced with permission of the Natural History Museum, London; b, lectoytpe of S. gundlachii O.E. Schulz, Wright 3030 (GH00077553). Reproduced with permission of Harvard University,Cambridge,Massachusetts, USA;c, lectotype of S. maestrense Urb.,Ekman 14456 (S04-2941). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; d, lectotype of S. squarrosum O.E. Schulz, Schomburgk 51 (L0403808). Reproduced with permission of the Natural History Museum of the Netherlands.