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Commelina reflexa Rusby 1934

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Description

Commelina reflexa Rusby (1934: 50)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— BOLIVIA. LA PAZ: road from Okara to Ancoma, alt. 11000 feet, 29 April 1926, G. H. H. Tate 847 (NY barcode 00247428!; isolectotype NY barcode 00247427!). Fig. 5.

Notes:— The protologue of Commelina reflexa provided the following information on the original material: “ First collected by O. E. White at Pongo de Quime, Bolivia, alt. 11,500 ft., in July, 1921 (Mulford No. 172). “Growing in full sunshine, about 12 inches high, the flowers blue.” Collected by G. H. H. Tate on the road from Okara to Ancona, alt. 11,000 ft., April 29, 1926 (No. 847)”. I was able to locate three syntypes, all at NY: barcodes 00247427 and 00247428 (G. H. H. Tate 847), and 00658742 (O. E. White 172); all these specimens are in accordance with the morphological information provided in the protologue. All things considered, I designate the specimen NY barcode 00247428 (Fig. 5) as lectotype of C. reflexa, because this is the best specimen among the available syntypes. This species was described from Bolivia, and to this date its distribution and conservation status are not clear, thus warranting urgent taxonomic studies.

Notes

Published as part of Hassemer, Gustavo, 2018, Typification of five neotropical species of Commelina (Commelinaceae), pp. 15-23 in Phytotaxa 350 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.350.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13707711

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Biodiversity

Collection code
LA, G, H, NY , O, E, G, H, I, NY
Event date
1926-04-29
Verbatim event date
1926-04-29
Scientific name authorship
Rusby
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Commelinales
Family
Commelinaceae
Genus
Commelina
Species
reflexa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
isolectotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Commelina reflexa Rusby, 1934 sec. Hassemer, 2018

References

  • Rusby, H. H. (1934) New species of plants of the Ladew expedition to Bolivia. Phytologia 1: 49 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 18988