Comolia berberifolia (Bonpl.) De Candolle (1828: 115)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.497.3.4 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/440887DD-FFEB-FFA8-FF15-2DF7FB13F823 |
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Marcus |
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Comolia berberifolia (Bonpl.) De Candolle (1828: 115) |
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2. Comolia berberifolia (Bonpl.) De Candolle (1828: 115) View in CoL .≡ Rhexia berberifolia Bonpl. (in Humboldt& Bonpland 1820: 110, pl. 42). Type:—Brésil [ BRAZIL]. habitat cum pr ӕcedente, s.d., A.R. Ferreira s.n. (lectotype, designated here: P! [P00482343; negative of P at F! herbarium number 36179; photo of P at NY!]; isolectotype: BR! [BR0000008930712 fragment and draft of the original illustration]).
Notes:— Comolia berberifolia is the type species of the genus ( De Candolle 1828). On the lectotype label there are inscriptions “ Rhexia berberidifolia ” and “ Comolia berberidifolia ” ( Figure 2A View FIGURE 2 ), but in the publications of Humboldt & Bonpland (1820) and De Candolle (1828) the epithet adopted was “ berberifolia ”. As indicated in the protologue of C. berberifolia , the original material was deposited at P ( De Candolle 1828). It should be noted that the collections deposited at P were examined by Humboldt & Bonpland (1823, see Preface).
While studying the collections of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756–1815), Wurdack (1971) highlighted that Ferreira’s collections were examined by Bonpland and De Candolle and also attributed the original material of C. berberifolia to this collector. Alexandre R. Ferreira carried out numerous scientific activities in the region surrounding Barcelos municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, at the end of the 18 th century ( Goeldi 1895), and we suspect that the type species of the genus may have been collected in this region .
However,in addition to the collection at P ( P 00482343, Figure2A View FIGURE 2 ),we found a collection at BR ( BR 0000008930712, Figures 2B–E View FIGURE 2 ), with a sheet containing a sketch of the original illustration and description ( Figures 2B–C View FIGURE 2 ), a fragment of the type ( Figures 2B and D View FIGURE 2 ), and a draft of the description of Flora brasiliensis prepared by Cogniaux (1885) ( Figure 2E View FIGURE 2 ). Rocha et al. (2018) also mentioned the duplicate at BR, however considered mistakenly the specimen at P as the holotype, because these are syntypes. Since the sketch of the original illustration is on the sheet at BR, we interpret that this material composes the original material. Thus, typification is necessary (see Article 9.3 of the ICN) and here we consider A. R. Ferreira s.n. deposited at P ( P 00482343, Figure 2A View FIGURE 2 ) as the lectotype.
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Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants |
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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile |
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Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection |
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Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural |
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Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum |
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