Cryptantha alyssoides (A. DC.) Reiche, Anales Univ. Chile 121: 824. 1907.

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2. Cryptantha alyssoides (A. DC.) Reiche, Anales Univ. Chile 121: 824. 1907.

Cryptantha alyssoides ≡ Eritrichium alyssoides A. DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 10: 131. 1846. Krynitzkia alyssoides (A. DC.) A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 280. 1885. Type: Chile. Región del Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins: Talcaregué, 1833, C. Gay s.n. (holotype: G [G00204936 digital image!]).

Cryptantha alyssoides = Eritrichium gilliesii Phil., Anales Univ. Chile 43: 517. 1873. Cryptantha gilliesii (Phil.) Reiche, Fl. Chile 5: 229. 1907. Type: Chile. Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Valle del Yeso, Jan. 1866, R.A. Philippi s.n. (first-step lectotype, designated by Johnston 1927, pg. 65: SGO; second-step lectotype, designated here: SGO [SGO000004084 digital image!]; isolectotype: SGO [SGO000004085 digital image!]).

Cryptantha alyssoides = Eritrichium talquinum Phil., Anales Univ. Chile 90: 517. 1895. Cryptantha talquina (Phil.) Brand, Pflanzenr. (Engler) [Heft 97] 4, Fam. 252: 32. 1931. Type: Chile. Región del Maule: Talca, Feb. 1879, F. Philippi s.n. (lectotype, designated by Johnston 1927, pg. 65: SGO [SGO000004140 digital image!]; isolectotypes: CORD [CORD00003778 digital image!], GH [GH00096580 digital image!]).

Notes.

In describing Eritrichium gilliesii , Rudolph. A. Philippi (1873) cited a collection he made in Valle del Yeso, Chile. Two specimens of the gathering referred to by Philippi are found at SGO; these duplicates all bear original labels annotated by him with the identification of " E. gilliesii " and agree with the diagnosis cited in the protologue. Johnston (1927) clearly indicated a sheet housed at SGO as the “type”, although more than one specimen is actually lodged there. Thus, Johnston’s choice is here interpreted as a first-step lectotypification. In order to narrow this designation, the sheet SGO000004084 is here selected as a second-step lectotype.

The original material of Eritrichium talquinum , as referred to by Rudolph A. Philippi (1895) in the protologue of the species, was collected by Friedrich Philippi in Talca, Chile. There are two sheets of apparent original material, which agree with the diagnosis and cited locality, at CORD and SGO. Both specimens were presumably studied by R. A. Philippi since they were annotated, in his hand, as " Eritrichium talquinum ". Johnston (1927) noted the specimen at SGO as the “type”, although the author of the name had not indicated any collection as such at the time he published the species. Thus, given that only one element at SGO satisfies the information given by Johnston, his statement is here interpreted as a lectotype designation.