Erica mallotocalyx E.C.Nelson & E.G.H.Oliv., 2023

Nelson, E. Charles, Oliver, E. G. H. & Pirie, Michael D., 2023, Erica L. (Ericaceae): homonyms amongst published names for African species and proposed replacement names, PhytoKeys 236, pp. 157-178 : 157

Erica mallotocalyx E.C.Nelson & E.G.H.Oliv. nom. nov.

Erica flocciflora pro E. flocciflora Benth., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 7(2): 660. 1839 (late December) [wfo-0000672068], nom. illeg., non Tausch, Flora Bot. Zeit. Regensb. 22: 629. 1839 (28 October) [wfo-0000672067]; Guthrie and Bolus, Fl. Capensis 4,1: 310 (1905); Dulfer, Ann. Naturhist. Mus, Wein 68: 98 (1965).

Type.

South Africa. "In colonia capensi" (cit. Bentham 1839) ['on a rocky hill near Groot River , Uniondale Div.'], 14 March 1814, W.J. Burchell 4992 (lectotype, here designated, K (K-314571 [https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000314571]; isolectotype, G)