Proposals to conserve the names Leysera</i

TAXON 57 (3) • August 2008: 1001–1002
Fagg & Harris • (1843) Conserve Acacia goetzei
(1839–1842) Proposals to conserve the names Leysera against Asteropterus,
Volutaria against Amberboi, Rhaponticum with a conserved type, and
Rhaponticoides against Bielzia (Compositae)
Werner Greuter
Herbarium Mediterraneum, Orto Botanico, Via Lincoln 2/A, 90123 Palermo, Italy; and Botanischer Garten
& Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany. w.greuter@
bgbm.org
(1839)
Leysera L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 1249. Aug 1763 [Comp.],
nom. cons. prop.
Typus: L. gnaphalodes (L.) L. (Callisia gnaphalodes L.).
(≡)
Asteropterus Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 124. Jul-Aug 1763,
nom. rej. prop.
(1840) Volutaria Cass. in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris.
1816: 200. Dec 1816 [Comp.], nom. cons. prop.
Typus: Volutaria lippii (L.) Maire (in Jahandiez &
Maire, Cat. Pl. Maroc: 817. 1934) (Centaurea lippii L.)
(≡)
Amberboi Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 117. Jul-Aug 1763,
nom. rej. prop.
(1841)
Rhaponticum Ludwig, Inst. Reg. Veg., ed. 2: 123.
1757 [Comp.], nom. cons. prop.
Typus: Centaurea rhapontica L., typ. cons. prop.
(1842) Rhaponticoides Vaill. [in Phys. Abh. Königl. Akad.
Wiss. Paris 5: 165. 1754, nom. nondum inval., ex]
Vaill. in Taxon 57: 1015 [Comp.], nom. cons. prop.
Typus: Centaurea centaurium L.
(=)
Bielzia Schur, Enum. Pl. Transsilv.: 409. Apr-Jun
1866, nom. rej. prop.
Typus: Bielzia schwarzenbergiana Schur
The detailed statements of the cases for and against the
conservation of these names appear elsewhere in this issue
(see Greuter in Taxon 57: 1015. 2008), with background information by Greuter & al. in Taxon 54: 148–174. 2005.
(1843) Proposal to conserve the name Acacia goetzei against
A. andongensis (Leguminosae)
Christopher W. Fagg1 & Stephen A. Harris2
1
2
Departamento de Botanica, Universidade de Brasília, CP 4457, 70919-970, Brasília – DF, Brazil.
[email protected] (author for correspondence)
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3RB, Oxford, U.K.
(1843)
Acacia goetzei Harms in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 395.
1900 [Dicot.: Legum.], nom. cons. prop.
Lectotypus (hic designatus): Tanzania, Kilosa, Kidodi, 1898, Goetze 387 (K; isolectotypus: E).
(=)
Acacia andongensis Welw. ex Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl.
1: 314. Dec 1896, nom. rej. prop.
Lectotypus (vide Torre in Carrisso & al., Consp.
Fl. Angol. 2: 277. 1956): Angola, Cuanza Norte,
Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch 1814 (LISU; isolectotypi: BM, K).
Acacia andongensis was first described by Hiern in
his Catalogue of Welwitsch’s African Plants (1896), from a
Welwitsch specimen, collected at Pungo Andongo, Cuanza
Norte district, Angola. The species was tentatively included
by Baker (Legum. Trop. Africa 3: 832. 1930), who was followed by Torre (l.c.). Ross (in Bothalia 11: 291. 1974 and
Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 44: 82. 1979) concluded that
the species was distinct but very closely related to A. goetzei
Harms subsp. microphylla Brenan, and differed solely in
having sparingly pubescent calyces. Acacia andongensis is
still only known from the type collection and a collection
from Cuanza Sul (Raimundo Matos & Figueira 697, LISC)
also in Angola. Locke (Legum. Africa Checkl.: 62. 1989)
included the name only provisionally.
Acacia goetzei is a well known and widespread species, first described by Harms (in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 395.
1900), based on a single gathering from modern Tanzania,
cited above. The holotype of A. goetzei, a flowering specimen originally preserved at B, is no longer extant (R. Vogt,
pers. comm.) but isotypes occur at K and E. The isotype of
Goetzei 387 held at Kew is designated above as lectotype.
Since its publication the name has been widely accepted in the
literature, including in Baker (l.c.: 830), Brenan & Greenway
(Checkl. Forest Trees Shrubs Brit. Empire 5(2): 329. 1949),
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