Solanum subbiflorum Ortega

Knapp, Sandra, 2013, Typification of Solanum species (Solanaceae) described by Casimiro Gómez Ortega, Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 70 (1), pp. 56-61 : 59

Solanum subbiflorum Ortega , Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 118. 1800

Ind. loc.: “La planta se cultiva en el jardín de esta Corte… Lo he visto en flor y fruto en dicho jardín”.

Neotype, designated here: MA 308482 .

Current accepted name: Solanum capense L.

No material filed as S. subbiflorum was found in the general herbarium, in the list of plants used by Cavanilles in teaching in the year 1801 ( Cavanilles, 1802) S. subbiflorum was recognised as a synonym of Solanum milleri Jacq. (itself a synonym of S. capense L.).

Filed as Solanum milleri in the general herbarium are several sheets, two were not collected from plants cultivated “en el jardín de esta Corte”; MA 573873 is a specimen donated by a secondary school in San Isidro and MA 308506 was collected on an unknown date by a Sr. Pascal. Two additional sheets are from material cultivated at the Real Jardín Botánico; one is too late to have been collected from the same plant Gómez Ortega used for his description (MA 3084902, dated 1844). MA 308482 ( Fig. 1d ) is annotated as “ Solanum milleri Jacq. / Solanum subbiflorum Ortega / Ex Hort. Matr. 1803” in the hand of José Demetrio Rodriguez and is likely to be material from the same plants used by Gómez Ortega three years earlier to describe S. subbiflorum and I have selected this sheet as the neotype. All of these sheets are identifiable as S. capense L.

Figures

Fig. 1. a, neotype of Solanum cymosum Ortega (=Solanum lanceolatum Cav.) (MA 476353); b, neotype of Solanum ficifolium Ortega (= Solanum ferrugineum Jacq.) (MA 334586); c, neotype of Solanum leprosum Ortega (=Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav.) (MA 334600); d, neotype of Solanum subbiflorum Ortega (=Solanum capense L.) (MA308482).