Cordia multispicata Cham. Linnaea 4: 490. 1829.

Feuillet, Christian, 2016, Lectotypifications of six taxa in the Boraginales (Cordiaceae and Heliotropiaceae), PhytoKeys 62, pp. 95-100 : 97

2. Cordia multispicata Cham. Linnaea 4: 490. 1829.

Lithocardium multispicatum (Cham.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 977. 1891.

Type.

Brazil. "Eastern Brazil", F. Sellow s.n. [46?] (B† [F0BN000987, photo!]; lectotype here designated: US! [US00110697, scan!]; isolectotypes G! [G00177047, scan!], HAL n.v. [HAL0098661, scan!]).

Accepted name.

Varronia multispicata (Cham.) Borhidi, Acta Bot. Hung. 34(3-4): 392. 1988.

Notes.

The type material at B was destroyed during World War II. I am selecting as the lectotype the duplicate preserved at US that I have studied. I have also seen the duplicate at G, but have not carefully studied it.

Correspondence with Irina Illarionova and Vladimir Dorofeyev (LE) resulted in no specimen from the Chamisso herbarium collected by Sellow for Cordia multispicata or Varronia multispicata in the LE collections.

The collection F. Sellow 46 has been cited for other groups of plants like ferns, Asplenium sellowianun C. Presl ex Hieron. ( Meza Torres 2011: 125), Orchidaceae , Pleurothallis sonderana H. G. Reichenbach (Harvard University Herbaria, Index of specimens), and F. Sellow [46] Solanaceae , Solanum convolvulus Sendtn. ( Knapp 2013: 143). It is probable that 46 is not a collection number (see above).