Solanum selleanum Urb. & Ekman

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 : 79

Solanum selleanum Urb. & Ekman , Ark. Bot. 21(5): 60. 1927

Type: Haiti. Massif de la Selle , Morne de la Selle , Croix des Bouquets , above Badeau , 1600 m, 28 Jan 1925, E.L. Ekman H.3127 (lectotype, S [ S04-2981 ] , designated here; isolectotypes, S [S-04-2982], US [US-1304052, barcode US00027793]).

Distribution. Only known from the island of Hispaniola, in valleys (Morne de la Selle, Haiti) at ca. 1600 m. The type and one other sheet from the Dominican Republic (Zanoni & al. 33773, not seen) are the only specimens of this species.

Representative specimen. Haiti, Ekman H.3127 (S). Two sheets of Ekman H.1327 are in S, both annotated by Ekman. Of these, S04-2981 ( Fig. 5b ) is more complete, with both flowers and fruit, and is here selected as the lectotype.

Figures

Fig. 5. a, lectotype of Solanum schulzianum Urb., Eggers 2208 (K000196492); b, lectotype of S. selleanum Urb. & Ekman, Ekman H.3127 (S04-2981). Reproduced with permission of the Swedish Museum of Natural History; c, lectotype of Aquartia aculeata Jacq., Jacquin,Select.Stirp.Amer. t. 12, 1763) (= S. tetramerum Dunal). Reproduced with permission of the Natural History Museum Botany Library; d, neotype of S. inclusum Griseb.,Linden 1986 (BM000886483) (= S. tetramerum Dunal). Reproduced with permission of the Natural History Museum, London.