Drymaria apetala Bartl.

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

3. Drymaria apetala Bartl. in Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 2 (1): 7. 1831.

= Stellaria virgata Ser. ex DC., Prodr. 1: 396. 1824. Type: Without data ( holotype G [G 00212357!]).

= Drymaria macrantha A. Gray, U. S. Expl. Exped. 126. 1854. Type: Peru. [ Lima]: Cobradillo [illegible, possibly misspelled as Obrajillo, town located in Canta, Lima], 1838, Wilkes Exploring Expedition s. n. ( lectotype, designated by Duke 1961, pg. 234: US [10417 / 00103348!]; isolectotype: GH [00037755 image!]).

= Drymaria virgata Briq., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 13: 370. 1911. Type: Peru (erroneously reported as Mexico in the protologue). Without data, H. Ruiz & J. Pavon s. n. ( holotype: G [G 00226765 image!]).

Type.

Chile. Habitat in Chile, 1822, T. Haenke s. n. ( lectotype, designated here: GOET [GOET 000576 image!]; isolectotypes: HAL [HAL 0117876 image!], PR [24309 image!]).

Distribution.

Peru, Chile.

Notes.

In most cases, for new species described in Reliquiae Haenkeanae, the specimens in PR are considered holotypes. However, in the case of the treatment of Caryophyllaceae , which was prepared by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, there are also duplicates housed in GOET, of the Georg August Universität Göttingen. This is the institution where Bartling worked, and these specimens were likely available for study by him at the time of the species’ description. What we are uncertain of is whether he also examined the material at PR. Because of this doubt, we designated the specimen at GOET as the lectotype.

For Drymaria macrantha, Duke stated that the specimen in the US was the “ HOLOTYPE. ” However, both the specimen at US and that at GH were available to Asa Gray at the time of description and labeled by him as a new species. Thus, we treat Duke’s use of the term holotype as an error to be corrected into a lectotype (see Turland et al. (2018) art. 9.10).

The type of Drymaria virgata was reportedly collected by Pavon in Mexico, but these are probably duplicates from a collection in Peru, since there are no known specimens collected outside of Peru ( Duke 1961), and Ruiz and Pavon did not collect in Mexico.