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Stenostelma carinatum Bullock 1956

  • 1. National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 101, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa. & School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa.
  • 2. School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X 54001, Durban, 4000 South Africa.

Description

Stenostelma carinatum (Schltr.) Bullock (1956: 521).

Krebsia carinata Schlechter (1895b: 269).

Xysmalobium carinatum (Schltr.) N.E. Brown (1907: 568).

Type: SOUTH AFRICA, Eastern Cape Province, wet grassland near Kokstad, alt. 1524 m, February 1883, W. Tyson 1439 (lectotype K! [K000234344] here designated).

[Gomphocarpus carinatus Schlechter (1894c: 528, nom. nud.)].

In the original description of Krebsia carinata Schlechter (1895b) two specimens were cited, Schlechter 6548 and Tyson 1439. As no material of Schlechter 6548 could be traced and only a single duplicate of Tyson 1439 was traced at K this collection is here chosen as the lectotype.

Notes

Published as part of Bester, Stoffel P. & Nicholas, Ashley, 2018, New combinations in Stenostelma (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) and two novel species from South Africa, pp. 41-55 in Phytotaxa 361 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.361.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13704192

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bullock
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Stenostelma
Species
carinatum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stenostelma carinatum Bullock, 1956 sec. Bester & Nicholas, 2018

References

  • Bullock, A. A. (1956) Notes on African Asclepiadaceae VIII. Kew Bulletin 11: 503 - 522. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4109137
  • Schlechter, R. (1895 b) Beitrage zur Kenntnis sudafrikanischer Asclepiadeen. Botanische Jahrbucher 20 (5): 1 - 56. [Beiblatt 51]
  • Brown, N. E. (1907) Asclepiadaceae. In: Thistleton-Dyer, W. T. (Ed.) Flora Capensis 4 (1). London: Lovell Reeve & Co. Ltd., pp. 518 - 672.
  • Schlechter, R. (1894 c) Contributions to South African Asclepiadology. Journal of Botany, British and foreign 32: 257 - 263.