Agarista ericoides Taubert (1893: 512)

Dalastra, Claudenice Hilda & Heiden, Gustavo, 2023, Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Agarista (Ericaceae, Vaccinioideae, Lyonieae), Phytotaxa 618 (1), pp. 1-17 : 4

3. Agarista ericoides Taubert (1893: 512)

≡ Leucothoë ericoides (Taub.) Taubert ex Glaziou ([1910] 1905: 430), nom. inval.

Type:— BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Serra dos Cristais , near Diamantina, 1892, A.F.M. Glaziou 19577 (lectotype K000494453 , image!, here designated; isolectotypes BR0000006996413 , image!, C10010917 , image!, F0055216 , fragment!, G00390578 , image!, L0006627 , image!, LE00004365 , image!, P00715911 , image!, P00715909 , image!, P00715910 , image!; the former lectotype B †, designated by Sleumer 1959: 450) .

Note:— Taubert (1893) published Agarista ericoides but failed to mention a particular herbarium or specimen ( McNeill, 2014). There are eight syntypes, being six entire sheets (K000494453, BR0000006996413, C10010917, P00715911, P00715909, P00715910), and fragments of the Berlin specimen at F (F0055216F) and L (L0006627). We also consulted R, which maintains many Glaziou specimens, but no duplicate of this collection was found.

Leucothoë ericoides (Taub.) Taubert ex Glaziou ([1910] 1905: 430) is not validly published according to Art. 34.1 of the ICN ( Turland et al 2018), since the “Plantae Brasiliae centralis a Glaziou lectae = Liste des plantes du Brésil central recueillies en 1861–1895” (Glaziou 1905) is a suppressed work (“ opera utique oppressa ”).

Sleumer’s (1959) studies about Leucothoë , assumed B † as “ Holotype ” and indicated isotypes in BR, C, G, K, L, LE, and P, as well as a fragment at F. According to the Art. 7.11, Ex. 13 of the ICN (Turland el al. 2018), Sleumer (1959) indicated a lectotype. The remaining syntype specimens became isolectotypes. Judd (1984, 1995) followed this same pattern of type specimen designation.As this lectotype was destroyed, according to the Art. 9.11, a new lectotype must be designated as its substitute. Therefore, we are designating the specimen at K (K000494453) as the lectotype of Agarista ericoides because the material is well conserved, matches the protologue presenting fruits, and is similar to the original B † type (see F photo 220518 [4582]). The Field negative photo could not assume a type status (Art. 9.4, Turland et al. 2018), but provided additional information that assisted in our selection of the lectotype, because it keeps some information from the original material. The material here selected as lectotype is available digitally in speciesLink (SPECIESLINK, 2022), and digital herbarium database from K ( Kew 2022).