Viola lilloana W. Becker (1926a: 225)

Nicola, Marcela Viviana, Salomón, Luciana & Zuloaga, Fernando Omar, 2018, Nomenclatural and taxonomic study in species of Viola (Violaceae) from Argentina, Phytotaxa 338 (2), pp. 151-176 : 164

Viola lilloana W. Becker (1926a: 225)

Type (lectotype, designated here):— ARGENTINA. Tucumán: El Cajón , 4400 m, 17 January 1914, L. Castillón 3311 (M. Lillo sub. No. 16166) (BAF 6305!; isolectotypes, B [destroyed], LIL 001871 [digital image!], LIL 001872 [digital image!]). ( Fig. 4 )

Protologue citation:— “Argentina : Prov. Tucumán, El Cajón, 4400 m, 17. I. 1914 leg. M. Lillo sub. No. 16166. Typus in herb. W. Bckr. et Inst. Botan. et Farmacol. Buenos Aires.”

Distribution:—Endemic of the province of Tucumán, Argentina.

Notes:—According to the protologue, Wilhelm Becker mentioned type material deposited at B (the Becker Viola herbarium, “herb. W. Bckr.”, which was acquired by the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, B, in 1929 [ Hiepko 1987]) and BAF (the herbarium of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires, which Becker referred to as “Inst. Brot. et Farmacol. Buenos Aires). The material deposited at B was destroyed (Robert Vogt pers. comm.). In consequence, we selected the specimen with the herbarium reference number BAF 6305 as the lectotype of Viola lilloana because it is a discrete but complete specimen, agrees with the protologue, possesses an original label with clear notes handwritten by Castillón indicating the location and date of collection, and a label added later with the identification made in 1926 by Becker.

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FIGURE 4. Viola lilloana W. Becker, digital image of the lectotype L. Castillón 3311 (BAF 6305).