Solanum compressibaccatum Bitter, Repert., 2018

Costa-Silva, Rafael & Agra, Maria De Fátima, 2018, Lectotypifications of six taxa in Lycianthes (Solanaceae), Phytotaxa 348 (4), pp. 297-300 : 298

2. Solanum compressibaccatum Bitter, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 456. 1913

Type:— PERU. Dept. Loreto: Cerro de Ponasa , 1200 m, Feb 1903, E. Ule 6800 (Holotype B †, photo of holotype F-2560!; lectotype HBG511426 !, designated here; isolectotypes: CORD 00004168 !, G! [without barcode], K000585774 !, L0403129 !) .

Accepted name. Lycianthes leptocaulis (Rusby) Rusby (1926: 210) .

≡ Brachistus leptocaulis Rusby (1899: 26) . Type:— Bolivia, Dept. La Paz, Prov. Larecaja, Guanay, 2000 ft, Maio 1886, H. Rusby 2657 (NY138557!)

Notes. Solanum compressibaccatum was described by Bitter (1913: 456) based on E. Ule 6800, a plant with a climbing habit from Amazonian Peru. Subsequently, Bitter (1919: 358) transferred it to Lycianthes as Lycianthes acutangula (Griseb.) Bitter ssp. compressibaccata (Bitter) Bitter. The holotype deposited at B was destroyed during World War II, and here we are designating the isotype deposited at HBG as the lectotype. This specimen was identified by Bitter himself, and is in good condition with flowers, fruits and leaves.

The specimen of Ule 6800 at HBG is annotated as an isotype of Lycianthes stenoloba (Van Heurck & Muell. Arg.) Bitter (1919: 358) . However, this designation is incorrect since the type material of Lycianthes stenoloba is R. Spruce 4210 which was deposited in the Van Heurck Herbarium, now incorporated in the herbarium of the Botanic Garden Meise (BR). The basionym of this species is Solanum stenolobum Van Heurck & Muell. Arg. (in Van Heurck, 1870: 69) collected at Tarapoto, Peru.