Bryophyllum Salisbury (1805

Smith, Gideon F., 2024, A review and analysis of the nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus-rank synonyms of Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) published between 1763 and 1956, Phytotaxa 659 (3), pp. 236-254 : 243-244

4. Bryophyllum Salisbury (1805 : t. 3), basionym of Kalanchoe subg. Bryophyllum (Salisb.) Koorders (1919: 170) .

Type [species] of the genus name Bryophyllum :— Bryophyllum calycinum Salisbury (1805 : t. 3), currently accepted name Kalanchoe pinnata (Lamarck 1786: 141) Persoon (1805: 446) . See Smith & Figueiredo (2018a: 169, 2018b: 220–222), Smith (2022: 88–89), and Smith & Figueiredo (2023: 280) ( Fig. 4A ).

Type specimen of the name Cotyledon pinnata , basionym of Kalanchoe pinnata :—[ MAURITIUS]. s.l., s.d., [P.] Sonnerat s.n. (holotype Herb. P barcode P00297646, https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/ p00297646). See Wickens (1987: 27), Smith & Figueiredo (2018a: 169, 2018b: 222), Smith et al. (2019: 263–267), and Smith & Figueiredo (2023: 280) ( Fig. 4B ).

Nomenclatural notes:—The autonymic K. subg. Kalanchoe was automatically established when K. subg. Bryophyllum was published by Koorders (1919: 170) (see Turland et al. 2018: Articles 6.8, 22.1, and 22.3).

Taxonomic notes:— Bryophyllum is currently recognised at the rank of subgenus under Kalanchoe , as K. subg. Bryophyllum (Salisb.) Koorders (1919: 170) (see Smith 2022: 88–89).

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FIGURE 4. A. Material of Kalanchoe pinnata, the currently accepted name of Bryophyllum calycinum. Bryophyllum calycinum is the type [species] of the genus name Bryophyllum. B. Photograph of the type specimen (holotype) of the name Cotyledon pinnata, basionym of Kalanchoe pinnata: [MAURITIUS]. s.l., s.d., [P.] Sonnerat s.n. (Herb. P barcode P00297646). Credits: Photograph 4A taken by Gideon F. Smith. Photograph 4B is copyright of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN—Paris, France), and reproduced with their permission, which is gratefully acknowledged.