Ardisia crenulata Vent., Choix Pl.

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 98

9. Ardisia crenulata Vent., Choix Pl. : tab. 5. 1803.

Ξ Parathesis crenulata (Vent.) Hook. f. ex Hemsl.

Ty p u s: D O M I N I C A N R E P U B L I C / H A I T I: “ S t. Domingo ”, Poiteau s.n. (holo-: G [ G00341511 ]; iso-: G [G00341669]!, P-JU n° 7315+B [P00671356]!).

Notes. – Howard (1989: 43) designated plate 5 [tab. 5] in Choix in 1803 as the lectotype. The finding of its holotype, Poiteau s.n., the only extant collection in the Ventenat herbarium, supersedes this lectotypification. Two duplicates of Poiteau’s collection have been located in the general herbarium at G and and in P-JU herbarium respectively and are here considered as isotypes.

A specimen annotated by Carl Ludwig Willdenow “ Ardisia crenula” [sic] and by Dietrich Friedrich Karl von Schlechtendal “Seidel Paris W [illdenow]” [B-W 044901-01 0] was probably collected by the gardener Jacob Friedrich Seidel, albeit almost certainly after 1803 and therefore illegible for typification. The latter is reported to have worked from 1810 to c. 1812 in the “Jardin des Plantes” in Paris ( Riedel & Riedel, 2010).