Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) O.F.Cook, Bull. Div. Bot. U.S.D.A. 25: 57. 1901.

Guedes-Oliveira, Ramon, Fortuna-Perez, Ana Paula, Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso & Mansano, Vidal de Freitas, 2023, Erythrina L. (Phaseoleae, Papilionoideae, Leguminosae) of Brazil: an updated nomenclatural treatment with notes on etymology and vernacular names, PhytoKeys 232, pp. 1-43 : 1

6. Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) O.F.Cook, Bull. Div. Bot. U.S.D.A. 25: 57. 1901.

Fig. 6

≡ Micropteryx poeppigiana Walp., in Duchassaing and Walpers, Linnaea 23(=7): 740. 1851.

≡ Erythrina micropteryx Poepp. ex Walp., in Duchassaing and Walpers, Linnaea 23(=7): 740. 1851, nom. nud.

≡ Erythrina micropteryx Poepp. ex Urb., Symb. Antill. 1: 327. 1899.

≡ Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) Skeels, in Galloway, Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 242: 84. 1912, nom. superf. et illeg., syn. nov.

= Erythrina amasisa Spruce, J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3: 202. 1859. Type: Peru. San Martín: "Tarapoto, in sylvis montium inferiorum praecipue secus rivolus", s.d., Spruce 4069 (lectotype, designated by Krukoff 1938, pg. 237 [first-step]; and here [second-step]: K [K000200903, sheet I; K000200905, sheet II]; isolectotypes: BM [BM000778350], BR [BR0000005196685], E [E00296690], F [V0043470F, V0043471F], G [G00365292, sheet I; G00365293, sheet II], GH [GH00066283], K [K000200906, sheet I; K000200904, sheet II], MPU [MPU023232], NY [NY00007984, NY00007985], P [P00708429, P00708430], TCD [TCD0004415]. (1)

= Erythrina pisamo Posada-Ar., Estudios Cient.: 120. 1909. Type: Colombia. s.loc., s.d., s.leg., s.n. (lectotype, designated by Martins and Tozzi 2018, pg. 400: illustration in Molina 1909, tab. s.n.). (2)

= Erythrina darienensis Standl., Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 18: 108. 1916. Type: Panamá. Darién: near Boca de Pauarandó, on the Sambú River, southern Darién, February 1912, Pittier 5578 (holotype: US [US00004481]; isotypes: BM [BM000931444], GH [GH00066265], MO [MO-114002, n.v.], NY [NY00007903, frag.; NY00007904]). (3)

= Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) O.F.Cook f. redmondii Steyerm. & Lasser, Phytologia 48: 286. 1981. Type: Veneuela. Miranda: "Los Chorros, Avenida principal, Caracas, en frente de la Escuela Hebraica", 9 March 1981, Redmond s.n. (holotype: VEN [VEN137030]; isotypes: MO [MO-277140], NY [NY00008000, NY00008001], U [U0003538], US [US00153764]). syn. nov. (4)

Type material.

Peru. "Peruvia subandina. In sylvis", September 1829, Poeppig 1306 (lectotype, designated by Martins and Tozzi 2018, pg. 400: NY [NY00016336]; isolectotypes: B [presumably destroyed], F [V0043502F, frag. and photo of F neg. 2373; V0059555F, frag.?]).

Notes.

Walpers (1851, not 1850) published Micropteryx with a new species from Peru ( M. poeppigiana ), which was based on Erythrina micropteryx , a name given by Poeppig that was never published. This mention also resulted in the publication of E. micropteryx itself, although it is considered a nomen nudum. Urban (1899) validly published the name E. micropteryx from Poeppig again. As the genus Micropteryx proposed by Walpers was later synonymized under Erythrina in Engler and Prantl (1894), Cook (1901) published E. poeppigiana based on M. poeppigiana by Walpers, which is the name that has been used for the species ever since. Krukoff (1938) designated the collection of Poeppig in herbarium B as the lectotype, but it was presumably destroyed in the bombing raid in 1943 ( Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin 2022). Thus, Martins and Tozzi (2018) correctly designated the remaining available material in herbarium NY as the new lectotype (Fig. 6 ). Skeels ( Galloway 1912) again published E. poeppigiana based on M. poeppigiana by Walpers, but as the name was already validly published by Cook (1901), it is considered illegitimate. Additional material: F (neg. 2373, negative of B), IAN001761 (photo of F neg. 2373), MO-1684973 (photo n.v.).

(1) Spruce (1859) published E. amasisa from Peru, but did not mention any type specimen. Krukoff (1938) cited a collection from Spruce in herbarium K as the type, but as there were three different exsiccatae in the mentioned herbarium, one of them was designated here as a second-step lectotypification.

(2) Posada-Arango (1909) published E. pisamo from Colombia but did not assign any type specimen. It was subsequently correctly designated by Martins and Tozzi (2018) as his illustration in the same publication. The name was already synonymized under E. poeppigiana by Krukoff (1938).

(3) Standley (1916) validly published E. darienensis from Panama with a full description mentioning the type specimen, and the name was already synonymized under E. poeppigiana by Krukoff (1938). Additional material: P (P02951340, photo of US00004481), W (W19390013217, photo of US00004481).

(4) Steyermarkii and Lasser (1981) published the form E. poeppigiana f. redmondii from Venezuela based only on some specimens with yellow flowers, and correctly cited the type specimen. As no other known characteristics support the distinction between forms (Guedes-Oliveira et al. manuscript in preparation), nor is this variation reported from elsewhere, it is designated here as a new synonym.

Etymology.

The specific epithet " Erythrina poeppigiana " was a homage to Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798-1868), a German botanist, zoologist, and explorer who collected the type specimen attributed to the species.

Vernacular names.

There are no other known vernacular names for E. poeppigiana in Brazil besides the commonly used “mulungu”.

Figures

Figure 6. Lectotype of Erythrina poeppigiana (Walpers) O. F. Cook (1901: 57), designated by Martins and Tozzi (2018: 400). Source: William and Lynda Steere Herbarium (NY) - The New York Botanical Garden via C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, NY 00016336.