Pancheria Brongn. & Gris

Hopkins, Fortune & Bradford, Jason C., 2009, Nomenclature and typification of names in the endemic genus Pancheria (Cunoniaceae) from New Caledonia, Adansonia (3) 31 (1), pp. 103-135 : 108

Genus Pancheria Brongn. & Gris

Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 9: 74 (1862), nom. cons.

LECTOTYPE. — Pancheria elegans Brongn. & Gris ( Fig. 1), designated by Brongniart & Gris (1868).

REMARKS

Brongniart & Gris’s name commemorates Jean- Armand-Isidore Pancher, a French government botanist based in Nouméa from 1857 to 1869 and again from 1874 until he died in 1877 aged 63 ( Stafleu & Cowan 1983). He made numerous collections of Cunoniaceae in New Caledonia including type material of four names of species in Pancheria .

Hutchinson (1967) mentioned Pancheria elegans as the type of the genus Pancheria , and Hoogland & MacKee (1988) ascribed the lectotypification to him. However, we do not know if Hutchinson’s statement was his own choice or based on Brongniart & Gris (1868). Wilson (1985) argued that the latter authors had lectotypified the name Pancheria when they described and illustrated P. elegans in detail; although the type concept was not fully developed at that time, they used the word “type” in the introduction to their paper: “les types de ces nouveaux genres” ( Brongniart & Gris 1868: 2). Lectotypification of the name Pancheria is therefore ascribed to Brongniart & Gris, and the syntype of P.elegans collected by Pancher is designated below as the lectotype of that species’ name. Note that Wilson (1985) gave the date of publication for Brongniart & Gris’s paper as 1869 but 1868 is printed in the journal and we have not found evidence for the later date.

Hoogland & MacKee (1988) proposed the conservation of the generic name Pancheria Brongn. & Gris , published in 1862, over Pancheria Montrouz. , published in 1860. Although the name in Flore de l’Île Art ( Montrouzier 1860) was spelled “ Panchezia ”, this was considered a misprint since Montrouzier did not have the opportunity to correct the proofs of his work ( Hoogland & MacKee 1988). Pancheria Montrouz. refers to a genus of Rubiaceae . Pancheria Brongn. & Gris was first listed as a conserved name in the Tokyo edition of the Code ( Greuter et al. 1994: 236).

The orthographic variant Panchera was used by Post & Kuntze (1903) but has not been taken up by others.

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