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Croton obliquifolium Visiani 1836

Description

Croton obliquifolium Visiani (1836a: 223; also treated in Visiani 1836b: 39; 1836c: 70)

Locus classicus: —“in AEgypto”.

Lectotype (designated here):— EGYPT. s.l., s.d., Acerbi s.n. (PI005428!) (see Fig. 9).

Additional specimens examined:— EGYPT. In argine Nili, s.d., Brocchi s.n. (BASSA-BR-112!).

Note:—The specimen chosen as type bears a label written and signed by Visiani, and is therefore suitable as a lectotype. This name is now generally considered a synonym of Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A.Jussieu ex Sprengel (1826: 850) (Euro+Med 2018). Visiani himself evaluated the similarities between these two plants, but he concluded that his new taxon was different from Jussieu’s “because of the genus, the infructescence, the leaves, and the pendulous capsules” (“genere, frutescentia, foliis, capsulis pendulis”).

Notes

Published as part of Clementi, Moreno, D'Antraccoli, Marco & Miola, Antonella, 2019, Nomenclatural and taxonomical notes on some taxa described by Roberto de Visiani from Egypt and Sudan, pp. 49-64 in Phytotaxa 399 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.399.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13712994

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Visiani
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Croton
Species
obliquifolium
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Croton obliquifolium Visiani, 1836 sec. Clementi, D'Antraccoli & Miola, 2019

References

  • Visiani, R. de (1836 a) Enumerazione ed illustrazione di alcune piante dell'Egitto e della Nubia con otto tavole in rame. Commentarii di Medicina del Dott. G. F. Spongia, Fasc. mens. Augustianni MDCCCXXXVI: 186 - 226.
  • Visiani, R. de (1836 b) Plantae quaedam Aegypti ac Nubiae enumeratae atque illustratae. E Diario, cui titulus: Commentarii di Medicina del Dott. G. F. Spongia, Fasc. mens. Augustianni MDCCCXXXVI excerptae. Tipografia della Minerva, Padova, 43 pp.
  • Visiani, R. de (1836 c) Plantae quaedam novae vel minus cognitae in AEgypto a cl. Acerbi, in Nubia a cel. Brocchi detectae. Biblioteca italiana o sia Giornale di Letteratura, Scienze ed Arti compilato da varj letterati 83: 64 - 70.
  • Sprengel, C. (1826) Systema Vegetabilium. 16 th Edition. Vol. 3. Sumbtibus Librariae Dieterichianae, Gottingae, 936 pp.