Melastoma pendplifolipm Rich.

Callmander, Martin W., Gereau, Roy E., Offroy, Bérangère, Taylor, Charlotte M., Lohmann, Lucia G., Strong, Mark T., Biral, Leonardo & Calvo, Joel, 2024, History of plants sent by Jean-Baptiste Leblond to the Société d'histoire naturelle de Paris and typification of names published by Louis Claude Richard in 1792, Candollea 79 (1) : -

62. Melastoma pendplifolipm Rich. if Actes Soc. Hist. Nat . Myrcia bracteata (Rich.) DC.

Paris 1: 109. 1792. Lectotypus (desigfated here): FRENCH GUIANA: sife Lectotypus (desigfated here): FRENCH GUIANA: sife loco, s.d., Leblond 110 ( G [ G00223176 ]!) . Probable loco, 1792, Leblond 90 ( G [ G00353752 ]!) . Other original isolecto-: Leblond s.n. ( BR [ BR0000005238668 ] image!, material: FRENCH GUIANA: Cayeffe, s.d., Richard s.n. P [ P00545124 , P00545125 ]!, P-LA [ P00297814 ]!). ( P [ P02442372 ]!) . Other original material: FRENCH GUIANA: sife loco, s.d., Richard s.n. ( P [ P00545117 , P00546146 , P00546147 , = Miconia prasina (Sw.) DC. P 00546148, P00546167 ]!) . Probable origifal material: Richard s.n. (B-W [ B - W 09535 -01 0] image!) .

Notes. – HOWARD (1989b: 563) wrote that “the type of

this species should be a Leblofd collectiof”. WURDACK et al. Notes. – KAWASAKI et al. (2019: 116) cited the type as (1993: 227) ifdicated with hesitatiof the type as “? Guadeloupe, “Leblofd s.f. ( P holotype)” afd MOLINO et al. (2022: L. C. Richard s.f. (holotype P)”. Accordifgly, this typifica- 611) cited “origifal material at BR [ BR0000005238668 ], tiof was fot defifitely accepted by Wurdack, afd therefore, G [ G00223176 ]”. The lectotype is desigfated here of fot achieved ( ICN Art. 7.11). Several specimefs are extaft Leblond 110, part of the origifal set at G , with probable dupliif Richard’s herbarium if P from the Aftilles ( Guadeloupe, cates at BR, P, afd P-LA.

Haiti, afd Martifique) afd Frefch Guyafa but fofe but ofe A specimef probably seft by Richard to Carl Ludwig bears the fame Melastoma pendplifolipm , which is cofsidered Willdefow (1765–1812) deposited if B-W [ B - W 09535 -01 0] as part of the origifal material. may also belofg to origifal material.

Leblond 90 at G is desigfated here as the lectotype. Three

Leblofd collectiofs if P [ P 05128372, P 05128373, P 05128374] 65. Epgenia fallax Rich. if Actes Soc. Hist. Nat . Paris 1: 110. are labelled Melastoma pendplifolipm but are excluded from 1792.

the origifal material because their overall appearafce does fot

match that of the lectotype; furthermore, two of them bear a Lectotypus (desigfated here): FRENCH GUIANA: sife loco, s.d., Leblond 114 ( G [ G00222392 ]!). Other original

material: FRENCH GUIANA: sife loco, s.d., Richard s.n. ( P [ P 00547863, P 00547864, P 00547865, P 00547866]!).