Solanum aquartia var. luxurians Alain, Phytologia
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum aquartia
Solanum aquartia dunal var. luxurians (o.e. schulz)

description: <i>Solanum aquartia</i> Dunal var. <i>luxurians</i> (O.E. Schulz) Alain, Phytologia 70: 150. 1991 Type: <i>Solanum aculeatum</i> (Jacq.) O.E.Schulz var. <i>luxurians</i> O.E. Schulz ex O. Shmidt. <i>Distribution.</i> In forests and scrub on limestone dry hills on Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica, from sea level to 400 m elevation. <i>Representative specimen.</i> Jamaica, Saint Catherine Parish, <i>Proctor 32768</i> (BM). There has long been confusion over the correct name for this species. Dunal’s (1813) re-naming of Jacquin’s <i>Aquartia aculeata</i> as <i>Solanum aquartia</i> was illegitimate, but the name was used for many years. By the time Schulz (1909) made the correct combination <i>Solanum aculeatum</i>, the name <i>Solanum aculeatum</i> St. - Lag. had been validly (but illegitimately) published as a replacement for <i>Solanum aculeiger</i> Dunal (now recognised as a synonym of the Brazilian species <i>S. thomasiifolium</i> Sendtn., see Solanaceae Source, http://www.solanaceaesource.org). The oldest available name for this species is <i>S. tetramerum</i>. No specimen of <i>Aquartia aculeata</i> attributable to Jacquin has been found, despite intensive searches in many herbaria (principally BM, LINN and W) where such a sheet, if it had ever existed, might have been preserved. No original material was cited in the protologue (Jacquin, 1760), so any type selected must be a neotype. The illustration of <i>A. aculeata</i> in Jacquin’s first illustrated edition of the <i>Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia</i> (Jaqcuin, 1763), a copper engraving taken from original drawings done by Jacquin in the field (see Wiltshear, 1913) is very accurate, and I have chosen it here as the neotype of the species (Fig. 5c). <i>Solanum inclusum</i> was described without specific collection or locality but said to be widespread across the Caribbean and in northern South America (Grisebach, 1861). Various subsequent authors have suggested that Grisebach’s <i>S. inclusum</i> included both <i>S. tetramerum</i> and <i>S. polygamum</i>. No specimens have been identified at GOET that can be directly linked to Grisebach’s naming of <i>S. inclusum</i>. In his Cuban catalogue Grisebach (1866) cited specimens as <i>S. inclusum</i> that are now identified as <i>S. tetramerum</i> (<i>Linden 1986</i>, <i>2000</i>). Specimens indicated as type material of <i>S. inclusum</i> in some herbaria (i.e., <i>Wright 1350</i> in GH) are in fact <i>S. torvum</i>. Since Grisebach (1861) did not indicate any specimens or specific localities for his name, these sheets cannot be considered type material. I neotypify Grisebach’s <i>Solanum inclusum</i> here with the BM duplicate (Fig. 5d) of <i>Linden 1986</i> in order to stabilise usage (synonymy) of this ambiguous name. No duplicates of <i>Ekman H.7289</i>, the type of <i>Solanum miragonae</i>, are extant at B, and the only sheet of this collection encountered is at S, so this is the clear choice as the lectotype (Fig. 6a). It may be that the S sheet is the holotype, as <i>S. miragonae</i> was described in a Swedish journal along with other taxa whose types are in S, but as there is no evidence of this, I prefer to lectotypify the name here. <i>Solanum aculeatum</i> var. <i>fuertesii</i> was described using several collections: <i>Fuertes 384, 386</i> and <i>396</i>. Of these, <i>Fuertes 384</i> has been located in several herbaria, the NY duplicate is here selected as the lectotype (Fig. 6b). In describing variety <i>luxurians</i>, with larger, more repand leaves, several syntypes were cited: <i>Ekman H.2318</i>, <i>Ekman H.6732, Ekman H.8548</i>, <i>Ekman H.9979</i> and <i>Ekman H.8773</i>. The duplicate of <i>Ekman H.9979</i> in S (Fig. 6c) has an annotation label in Schulz’s hand with the varietal name <i>luxurians</i>, and is the logical choice for a lectotype.
description: Published as part of <i>Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 &amp; Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1)</i> on page 81, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
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