Viola calchaquiensis W. Becker (1926a: 226)

Nicola, Marcela Viviana, Salomón, Luciana & Zuloaga, Fernando Omar, 2018, Nomenclatural and taxonomic study in species of Viola (Violaceae) from Argentina, Phytotaxa 338 (2), pp. 151-176 : 154-156

Viola calchaquiensis W. Becker (1926a: 226)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— ARGENTINA. Tucumán: Cumbres Calchaquíes , 4500 m, 7 January 1908, L. Castillón 269 (ex herbario Lillo nº 8262) (LIL 001870 [digital image!]; isolectotypes, B [destroyed], BAF [missing]) .

Protologue citation:— “Argentina borealis: Prov. Tucumán, Cumbres Calchaquies, 4500 m, 7. I. 1908 leg M. Lillo sub no. 8262. Typus in herb. W. Bckr. et Inst. Bot. et Farmacol. Buenos Aires.”

Distribution:— Endemic of Argentina; known only for the northwest of Tucumán province.

Notes:— According to the protologue, types were deposited at B (the Wilhelm Becker Viola herbarium, “herb. W. Bckr. ”, which was acquired by the Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem, B, in 1929 [ Hiepko 1987]), BAF (the herbarium of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires, which Becker referred to as “Inst. Bot. et Farmacol. Buenos Aires ”), and LIL (the herbarium of the Miguel Lillo Foundation, which Becker referred to as “ M. Lillo ”) ; the first was destroyed during World War II (Robert Vogt pers. comm.; Hiepko 1987) and the second was not located at BAF. We found the specimen deposited at LIL as “ex herbario Lillo nº 8262” ; it was collected by León Castillón, not Miguel Lillo. We selected the specimen with the barcode number LIL 001870 as lectotype because it is an abundant and complete specimen, agrees with the protologue, and has two labels from BAF and LIL with clear notes handwritten by Castillón indicating its identification, location, and date of collection ; it also has a label with the identification made by Becker in 1926 .