Bredia hirsuta Blume, Mus. Bot. 1(2): 25. f. 4. 1849.

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Bredia hirsuta Blume, Mus. Bot. 1(2): 25. f. 4. 1849.

Type.

Japan. K. Ito s.n. (lectotype, designated here: L! [L0170980]).

In the protologue, Blume (1849) cited no specimen but the name " Rhexia fasikan " (should be Rhexia hasikan , see below) attached to a specimen from Von Siebold’s herbarium. Ohba and Akiyama (pers. comm.) discovered one sheet with the name " Rhexia hasikan " in the herbarium in Leiden (L0170980). The sheet contains two collections, a smaller one covered by paper on the upper part and a larger one with four branches on the middle and lower part. According to Ohba (pers. comm.), the epithet " hasikan " comes from the Japanese name of B. hirsuta , viz. “Hashikan-boku”. This sheet is regarded as the type material of B. hirsuta . We here designate the larger collection on the sheet as the lectotype of B. hirsuta .