Lectotypification of Streptolirion (Commelinaceae)

Abstract

In the course of revising the family Commelinaceae in India, it has been found that no type was indicated in the protologue of Streptolirion volubile Edgew. Thus, it warrants typification under execute Art. 9.2 of the International Code of Nomenclature (McNeill & al. 2012). Though not cited explicitly in the protologue, we consider Edgeworth's own material collected in 1844 from the Indian Himalaya and annotated by him to constitute original material and therefore appropriate for typification. We herein designate a specimen at Kew that unequivocally agrees with the protologue as lectotype.

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Phytotaxa 213 (1): 069–069
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Lectotypification of Streptolirion (Commelinaceae)
MAYUR D. NANDIKAR*1,2 & RAJARAM V. GURAV1
1Department of Botany of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India 416 004.
2Present address: Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research, Shindewadi, Post: Shirwal, Dist: Satara, Maharashtra, India 412 801.
*Corresponding author: mnandikar@gmail.com
In the course of revising the family Commelinaceae in India, it has been found that no type was indicated in the
protologue of Streptolirion volubile Edgew. Thus, it warrants typification under execute Art. 9.2 of the International
Code of Nomenclature (McNeill & al. 2012). Though not cited explicitly in the protologue, we consider Edgeworth’s
own material collected in 1844 from the Indian Himalaya and annotated by him to constitute original material and
therefore appropriate for typification. We herein designate a specimen at Kew that unequivocally agrees with the
protologue as lectotype.
Streptolirion Edgeworth (1845: 254)
Typ e:—Streptolirion volubile Edgew.
Streptolirion volubile Edgeworth (1845: 254)
Typ e:—INDIA. Himalaya: Dhowli valley, 1844, Edgeworth, M.P., s.n. (lectotype, designated here K [K000854207]).
Acknowledgements
We are thankful to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for making images available online and to Dr. Kanchi N. Gandhi,
Harvard University Herbaria for useful discussion on nomenclatural and typification problem. Two reviewers provided
helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
References
Edgeworth, M.P. (1845) Descriptions of some unpublished species of plants from North-Western India. Proceedings of the Linnean
Society of London 1: 252–258.
McNeill, J., Barrie, F.R.. Buck, W.R., Demoulin, V., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D.L., Herendeen, P.S., Knapp, S., Marhold, K., Prado, J.,
Prud’homme van Reine, W.F., Smith, G.E., Wiersema, J.H. & Turland, N.J. (Eds.) (2012) International Code of Nomenclature for
algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July
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