Pauridia affinis, Snijman & Kocyan, 2013

Snijman, Deirdre A. & Kocyan, Alexander, 2013, The genus Pauridia (Hypoxidaceae) amplified to include Hypoxis sect. Ianthe, Saniella and Spiloxene, with revised nomenclature and typification, Phytotaxa 116 (1), pp. 19-33 : 23-24

Pauridia affinis (Schult. & Schult.f.) Snijman & Kocyan, comb. nov.

Bas.:— Hypoxis affinis Schultes & Schultes (1830: 774) . Type (lectotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Cape], Caput bonae spei, 1820, Brehm s.n. (M! [image]). Brehm s.n. (M) is annotated in Schultes’ hand as ‘ Hypoxis affinis Syst. Veg’ and the specimen clearly matches the protologue.

= Hypoxis pusilla Presl (1845: 546) , nom. illeg., non Kunth (1816: 286), non Hooker (1858: 36. t. 130B) (McNeil et al. 2012: Art. 53.1). Type (lectotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Cape], Caput bona spei, Sieber Fl. capensis. No. 126 (PR! 290808/1709 [image]). Sieber’s collection, labeled ‘Fl capensis. No. 126’ is the only specimen mentioned in the protologue. No mention is made of where it is lodged.

= Hypoxis schlechteri Bolus (1893: 2259) Ξ Ianthe schlechteri (Bolus) Williams (1901: 292) Ξ Hypoxis curculigoides var. β schlechteri (Bolus) Baker (1896: 176) Ξ Spiloxene schlechteri (Bolus) Garside (1936: 269) , syn. nov. Type (lectotype designated here):— SOUTH AFRICA. [Western Cape], prope Kenilworth, 1892, R. Schlechter 628 (K! No. K000255983 [image]). The protologue mentions just one specimen, R. Schlechter 628, but Bolus (1893) does not refer to any particular herbarium where it is housed.

Note:—Until now Hypoxis affinis has been treated as a synonym of Spiloxene alba , possibly explaining why the name was overlooked by Bolus (1893), who later described matching plants as H. schlechteri . Like H. affinis , the early collections of H. schlechteri have also often been misidentified as S. alba , likely due to the apparent similarities in their succulent, terete leaves, which are often immature at the outset of flowering, and the flowers which are pink or reddish below. The southwestern Cape S. schlechteri has small, blackish brown corms covered by hard, fibrous ribs, which are simple and pectinate below and reticulate above, and the flowers, although yellow when fresh, characteristically dry reddish brown on the back, often fading to white ventrally, all features mentioned in the protologue of H. affinis . In contrast, S. alba has large, mostly naked corms with fine, brown fibres confined to a loose tuft above.