Heterostemma beddomei (Hooker) Swarupan. & Mangaly

Rodda, Michele, 2016, Checklist and typification of Heterostemma (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae, Ceropegieae), Phytotaxa 263 (1), pp. 1-17 : 5

Heterostemma beddomei (Hooker) Swarupan. & Mangaly in Swarupanandan et al. (1989: 254) ≡ Oianthus beddomei

Hooker (1883b: 49) [Jun 1883]

TYPE:— INDIA, Karnataka, Mysore, Beigoor forests, 4 August 1862, Wynaad, ex Beddome s.n. (drawing, K, lectotype here designated) ( Fig. 2 )

Notes: —Hooker (1883: 49) indicated that O. beddomei was described based on a drawing, as the original specimen collected by Beddome was lost. Swarupanandan et al. (1989) indicated the type as ‘A drawing by Beddome (K, not seen)’. Jagtap & Singh (1999) indicated the type as Plate 1466 in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum ( Hooker 1884) [September 1884]. The plate was published one year after the description of O. beddomei and cannot be safely considered original material. A preparatory drawing for the illustration published as plate 1466 of Hooker’s Icones Plantarum was found in the H. beddomei folder at K. The original drawing by Beddome (or after Beddome) ( Fig. 2 ) was found in the K Archives and is here selected as lectotype for H. beddomei .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Lectotype (Iconotype) of Heterostemma beddomei (K). This is just a drawing as the original specimen was lost before the taxon was described (Hooker 1883b: 49). Reproduced with the consent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.