Cheiridopsis spiculata R.F.Powell, 2018

Powell, Robyn F., Boatwright, James S., Klak, Cornelia & Magee, Anthony R., 2018, Nomenclatural novelties in Cheiridopsis (Ruschieae: Aizoaceae), Phytotaxa 336 (3), pp. 299-300 : 299-300

Cheiridopsis spiculata R.F.Powell nom. nov. pro Odontophorus marlothii N.E. Brown (1927: 12) , non Cheiridopsis marlothii N.E.Brown (= Cheiridopsis namaquensis (Sonder) H.E.K.Hartmann )

Lectotype (designated by Hartmann 1976: 218–219):— SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape: Ezelsfontein, between Spektakel and O’kiep, August 1926, Marloth 6974 ( BOL133780 !).

Note of the new specific epithet: —The new name refers to the sharply toothed leaves.

Acknowledgements

S. Hammer (Vista, California) is thanked for alerting the authors to the erroneous creation of the homonym Cheiridopsis marlothii (L.Bolus) R.F. Powell. Funding from the National Research Foundation, University of the Western Cape, University of Cape Town and University of Johannesburg as well as from the Smuts Memorial Botanical Trust and Erasmus Mundus AESOP+ grant is gratefully acknowledged.

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