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Phaseolus polystachyus Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg 1888

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Phaseolus polystachyus (L.) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg (1888: 15) [clade B; sect. Paniculati Freytag].

TYPE: J Clayton 568 (LECTOTYPE: BM-51643).

In the “Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta … New York City” (1888, p. 15), Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg and his co-authors spelled the species as Phaseolus polystachyus; in line with the “golden rule” presented by Nicholas Turland (2013, p. 88) it is thus unclear to this author why this taxon is often changed into “ Phaseolus polystachios.” The “Flora Virginica” by Jan Fredrik Gronovius (1762, p. 106) was key to consider the collection 568 by John Clayton as the lectotype.

The “thicket bean” is a species with a huge distribution at 30–700 m in oak grassland and mixed deciduous woods of the eastern USA where its habitat is shrinking (Dohle et al. 2019). It has been reported from E Texas (Turner et al. 2003), goes as far north as New York and Connecticut (Hollick & Britton 1895), and down to southern Florida (Small 1933). The following specimens just indicate the approximate extremes of the range.

Specimens: U.S.A. Connecticut: EB Harger 4148 (NEBC-643445). Florida: RP Wunderlin 5667 (POM-348542). Oklahoma: J Taylor 26884 (BRIT). Texas: WR Carr 18597 (TEX-201584).

Notes

Published as part of Debouck, D. G., 2021, Phaseolus Beans (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae): A Checklist And Notes On Their Taxonomy And Ecology, pp. 73-111 in Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 15 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.17348/jbrit.v15.i1.1052, http://zenodo.org/record/16906371

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM-51643
Scientific name authorship
Britton, Sterns, & Poggenburg
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Phaseolus
Species
polystachyus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phaseolus polystachyus Britton, 1888 sec. Debouck, 2021

References

  • POGGENBURG, J. F., N. L. BRITTON, E. E. STERNS, A. BROWN, T. C. PORTER, & A. HOLLICK. 1888. Preliminary catalogue of anthophyta and pteridophyta reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York city. Columbia College Herbarium. New York, U. S. A. 258 p.
  • TURLAND, N. 2013. The Code decoded - A user's guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Regnum Veg. 155. Koeltz Scientific Books, Konigstein, Germany. 169 p.
  • GRONOVIUS, J. F. 1762. Flora Virginica exhibens plantas, quas nobilissimus vir D. D. Johannes Claytonus, in Virginia crescentes observavit, collegit & obtulit. Lugduni Batavorum. 184 p.
  • DOHLE, S., J. C. BERNY MIER Y TERAN, A. EGAN, T. KISHA, & C. K. KHOURY. 2019. Chapter 4. Wild beans (Phaseolus L.) of North America. In: S. L. Greene, K. A. Williams, C. K. Khoury, M. B. Kantar, & L. F. Marek, eds. North American Crop Wild Relatives. Volume 2 ", Springer Nature AG. Berne, Switzerland. Pp. 99-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97121-6_4.
  • TURNER, B. L., H. NICHOLS, G. DENNY, & O. DORON. 2003. Atlas of the vascular plants of Texas - Volume I (Introduction, Dicots). Sida Bot. Misc. 24 (1): 1-652.
  • HOLLICK, A. & N. L. BRITTON. 1895. Flora of Richmond County, New York. Additions and new localities, 1891 - 1895. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22 (11): 460-462.
  • SMALL, J. K. 1933. Manual of the southeastern flora. The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U. S. A. 1554 p.