Solanum abbottii Leonard

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 abbottii Leonard , J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 415. 1924

Type: Dominican Republic. Prov. Pacificador, Quita Espuela , vic. San Francisco de Macoris , 900 m, 7 Apr 1922, W. Abbott 2073 (holotype, US [ US- 1079509 , barcode US0027429] ; isotype, NY [NY00111371]).

Distribution. Known only from the eastern portion of the island of Hispaniola (collections only seen from the Dominican Republic) growing in forests from 300-1300 m elevation.

Representative specimen. Dominican Republic, Prov. Samana, Salazar & al. 1309 (JBSD).

Of the two syntypes cited in the original description (Eggers 1608, Eggers 2208), only Eggers 2208 was cited by Urban as being fertile; the Kew duplicate ( Fig. 5a ) of this collection is therefore the most appropriate choice for a 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.