Drymaria stellarioides Willd.

Valentín-Martínez, Dagoberto, Steinmann, Victor W., Flores-Olvera, Hilda, Borsch, Thomas & Montesinos-Tubée, Daniel B., 2025, A nomenclator of Drymaria (Caryophyllaceae), PhytoKeys 266, pp. 139-175 : 139-175

47. Drymaria stellarioides Willd. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 5: 406. 1819.

Type.

Ecuador. [ Tungurahua]: Crescit prope Hambato, alt. 1380 hex. [alt. 564 m] [Regno Quitensi], [1802], A. von Humboldt & A. J. A. Bonpland s. n. ( lectotype, designated here: P [P 00335861!]; isolectotype P [P 00335860!]).

Distribution.

Ecuador.

Notes.

The specimens deposited in P with the label “ Herbier Humboldt & Bonpland ” come from Bonpland’s private collection. According to Stauffer et al. (2012), these are to be considered the holotypes. In the case of Drymaria stellarioides , there are two specimens at P representing original material. However, neither has the label “ Herbier Humboldt & Bonpland. ” Therefore, we designate the one with the barcode “ P 00335861 ” as the lectotype because it is the better specimen and the only one with a flower.

Most of the type specimen deposited at B were destroyed in World War II ( Hiepko 1987). Because the holotype at B was probably destroyed, here we designate one of the specimens of P as the lectotype.

For the same reason as with Drymaria arenarioides , authorship of Drymaria stellarioides should be attributed to Willdenow (see Turland et al. (2018), art. 46.3 example 15).

At F, there is a photo and a fragment probably from the holotype ([980359 / 0053308 F!]). This species is listed as Near Threatened (NT) ( León-Yáñez et al. 2011).