Kalanchoe carnea Brown (1886: 298) .

Smith, Gideon F., 2023, A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of the names and new combination published between 1886 and 1931 in Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) by British botanist Nicholas Edward Brown (1849 - 1934), Phytotaxa 630 (4), pp. 266-280 : 269-270

1. Kalanchoe carnea Brown (1886: 298).

Type:—[“ SOUTH AFRICA ” or “NEPAUL”], “its native country is somewhat doubtful”, “supposed to have been introduced from S. Africa” or “from Nepaul”, without further geographical information, received “from Mr. H. Laver, Mayor of Colchester [in Essex county, northeast of London, United Kingdom]”, February 1886, s.c. s.n. (lectotype, K barcode K 000975928 [image available at http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/ K 000975928]!), here designated.

Taxonomic notes:—The name K. carnea is of unresolved application (see also Descoings 2003: 144). Kalanchoe carnea was described as having pink, fragrant flowers. However, the preserved flowers on the Herb. K-held specimen, s.c. s.n., barcode K 000975928, appear to rather be yellowish. The illustration of K. carnea published in Anonymous (1887: 211) bears some resemblance to K. cassiopeja Dammann (1893:150) (see Smith & Figueiredo 2023a: 221), which was apparently described from horticulture and is also treated as a name of unresolved application (see for example Descoings 2003: 144).

Nomenclatural notes:— Brown (1886: 298–299) did not cite any material when he published the name K. carnea , and there is no indication that Brown (1886: 298) used only the lectotype designated here, s.c. s.n., barcode K 000975928, when publishing the name (Turland et al. 2028: Art. 9.1(b )).

The name K. carnea therefore does not have a holotype. The specimen s.c. s.n., with barcode K 000975928, held at Herb. K, represents original material because it was dated “ February 1886 ”, and the description was published the following month, on 6 March 1886, and the specimen was therefore clearly available to N. E. Brown (Turland et al. 2028: Articles 9.3 and 9.4). This specimen is here designated as lectotype. The handwritten reference to “fig. 48” on a “ Holotype ” [sic] label attached to the specimen is a reference to Anonymous (1887: 211) and not to Brown (1886: 298–299). This figure was not mentioned in the protologue of the name K. carnea and does not represent original material.

The material that Brown (1886: 298–299) described was said to have been introduced from either South Africa [“the Cape ”] or from “Nepaul”, an archaic spelling form of “ Nepal ”, in central Asia.