Duranta armata Moldenke (1941: 499)

Pablo, Moroni & Nataly, O’Leary, 2016, Typification of names in the genus Duranta (Duranteae, Verbenaceae), Phytotaxa 266 (2), pp. 91-102 : 99

Duranta armata Moldenke (1941: 499)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— PERU. Cuzco, Upa blanca, 1923, F. L. Herrera 85 ( NY barcode 137497 [digital image!], fragment ex B). Epytype (designated here):— PERU. Departamento de Junín, valle del Urubamba, cerca de Yucay, Dic. 1926, F. L. Herrera 1461 ( US No. 1283237!), Fig. 5.

Protologue citation:—“ PERU — CUZCO: Upa Blanca, near Cuzco , alt. 3400–3600 m., Fortunato L. Herrera 85, TYPE; in the herbarium of the Botanisches Museum at Berlin, received there in February, 1923.”

Notes:— The protologue information of Duranta armata says: ‘ Upa Blanca , near Cuzco, alt. 3400–3600 m., F. L. Herrera 85. TYPE ; in the herbarium of the Botanisches Museum at Berlin, received there in February, 1923’. No material of Duranta armata with the given data was found in B. As it is known, a large part of the collections in B was destroyed in 1943 during Second World War and if the specimen was there as indicated by Moldenke in the protologue, it was likely to be among the destroyed material (R. Lücking & R. Vogt, pers. comm.). No other original material was located since there were no duplicates. However, there are fragments removed from the destroyed holotype by Moldenke during his visit to the herbarium in 1936 as well as a photograph of the holotype which had also been taken by him and his wife. Moldenke mentions in the manuscript of the protologue that a photo is housed in NY (it is currently housed there; T. Wendt, pers. comm.) and another in Z (it was not found). The fragments of the holotype are mounted in a herbarium sheet in NY and are labeled as “fragment of type!”. This material is an isotype and in the absence of the original holotype has priority in the designation of a lectotype (J. McNeill, pers. comm.). Thus, the specimen housed in NY is here selected as a lectotype.

Since the fragments cannot be critically identified for purposes of the precise application of the name to a taxon, an epitype is simultaneously designated supporting that lectotype (Art. 9.8 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012). The specimen above mentioned is here chosen as epitype given its congruence with the description in the protologue.