Ficus ochroleuca Grisebach (1859: 151)

Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso, Mitidieri-Rivera, Nicole, Romaniuc-Neto, Sergio & Mansano, Vidal De Freitas, 2021, Typification of Ficus sect. Americanae (Moraceae): F. aurea and F. pertusa complexes, Phytotaxa 514 (2), pp. 149-157 : 151

Ficus ochroleuca Grisebach (1859: 151)

Lectotype (designated here): — JAMAICA. s.d., W. T. March 1449 (lectotype: GOET008101 !).

Remaining syntypes:— JAMAICA. 1850. R. C . Alexander s.n. ( GOET007377 !, GOET007378 !) .

Nomenclatural notes:— The protologue of Ficus ochroleuca mentions two syntypes, R. C . Alexander and March , both collected in Jamaica, without number of collector or deposited herbarium. Warburg (1903) clarifies that these collections were in Grisebach’s herbarium, currently Göttingen University Herbarium ( GOET). Analyzing the GOET collections, we found three types with the old annotation “ Ficus ochroleuca ” collected by Alexander and by March ( GOET007377 , GOET007378 , GOET008101 ). As a lectotype, we chose the material of March 1449 (lectotype: GOET008101 ) because it contains branches, stipules, leaves and syconia in a young and mature phase. Berg & Dewolf (1975) cite the collection of Prior s.n. ( K), but this lectotypification must be superseded because it is not an original material. Berg & Villavicencio (2004), Berg (2007) and Pelissari et al. (2019) cite March 1449 ( GOET) collection as the holotype, but this needs to be corrected to lectotype according to the present work .

Taxonomical note:— Ficus ochroleuca was synonymized by Berg (2007) as F. pertusa .