Saccharum teneriffae Linnaeus

Peruzzi, Lorenzo, 2014, Miscellaneous typifications of selected species occurring in Calabria (S Italy), Phytotaxa 178 (1), pp. 50-52 : 51

Saccharum teneriffae Linnaeus filius (1782: 106).

≡ Tricholaena teneriffae ( L.f.) Link (1829: 91). Type (lectotype, designated here):— SPAIN. Canary Islands. Tenerife juxta Santacruz, s.d., F. Masson s.n. ( BM, no. 000829316!; isolectotype: K, no. 000244628!) .

The younger Linnaeus (1782) described this species from Tenerife (“Habitat in Teneriffa. Fr. Masson.”). BM and K maintain Masson’s collection which served as the basis of the description of Saccharum teneriffae . They conform to the protologue and can be considered as original material, the BM specimen is selected here as the lectotype. The lectotype confirms the current application of the name (e.g. Clayton 1980, Pignatti 1982).