Open AccessSome new Darwin vascular plant specimens from the Beagle voyage
Author(s) -
PORTER DUNCAN M.,
MURRELL GINA,
PARKER JOHN
Publication year - 2009
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.1095-8339.2008.00943.x
Subject(s) - holotype , herbarium , biology , botany , type specimen , botanical garden , type (biology) , typification , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , nomenclature , ecology , genus
This paper reports 24 newly discovered specimens of 21 species made by Charles Darwin in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay while on the 1831–1836 voyage of HMS Beagle . They have been found in Cambridge University Herbarium and the herbaria of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Natural History Museum, London, New York Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, since the earlier publications of Porter. Included are type specimens of Calceolaria darwinii (isotype; = C. uniflora ), Cuscuta gymnocarpa (holotype and isotypes), C. sandwichiana var. mimosae (isolectotypes = C. gymnocarpa ), Ephedra frustillata (lectotype and isolectotypes), Ourisia breviflora (isolectotype), Polypodium paleaceum (syntype?; = Ctenitis sloanei ) and Urera gaudichaudiana (holotype; = Laportea aestuans ). © 2009 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2009, 159 , 12–18.