Open AccessTypification of nineteen names of African Solanum species described by A. Richard and others, including S. campylacanthum and S. panduriforme
Author(s) -
LESTER RICHARD N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
botanical journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.872
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1095-8339
pISSN - 0024-4074
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1997.tb02258.x
Subject(s) - herbarium , typification , correct name , biology , botany , ex parte , taxonomy (biology) , nomenclature , law , political science
The Paris Herbarium (P) contains many important but neglected specimens, collected from Abyssinia (now Eritrea and Ethiopia) by Quartin‐Dillon and Petit, as well as by Schimper, and first described as new species by Achille Richard: A brief account is presented here of the circumstances of the collection, description and publication of these. Definitive typification and nomenclatural details are provided for twelve names of Abyssinian Solanum species described by A. Richard in 1850 in Paris, and of five other African species described by Dunal (1852) and of two others. These are S. adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich., S. bifurcation Hochst. ex A. Rich. (= S. bifurcum Hochst. ex Dunal), S. campykcanthum Hochst. ex A. Rich., S. grossidentatum A. Rich., S. hirtulum Steud. ex A. Rich., S. macilentum A. Rich., S. macracanthum A. Rich., S. piperiferutn A. Rich., S. plebeium A. Rich., S. polyantkemum Hochst. ex A. Rich., S. schimperianum Hochst. ex A. Rich, and S. unguiculatum A. Rich., and also S. albicaule Kotschy ex Dunal, S. dekgoense Dunal, S. heudelotii Dunal, S. panduriforme E. Mey. ex Dunal and S. senegambicum Dunal, and also S. kotschyii Steud. (ined.) and S. senegalense Perr. (ined.). Some of these are synonyms of S. anguivi Lam., Sforskalii Dunal, S. incanum L., S. terminal Forssk. and S. villosum Mill. Hitherto, places of publication of several of these names, and the authorship of many of diem have been cited incorrecdy.