Physalis lagascae Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg.

P. V., Kale, Abstract, R. D. Shinde, L., Medicago & L., Physalis, 2023, Typification of Medicago monantha (Fabaceae) and Physalis lagascae (Solanaceae), Rheedea 33 (3), pp. 217-219 : 218-219

Physalis lagascae Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. , ed. 15 bis 4: 679. 1819. Physalis parviflora Lag., Gen. Sp. Pl. 11, no. 147. 1816, nom. illeg., non R.Br., 1810.

material of P. lagascae at MA (where Lagasca was known to work) has remained overlooked to date.

Two specimens (Acc. nos. 237723, 237731), each bearing an annotation as P. parviflora in Lagasca’s handwriting ( Burdet, 1976) could be traced at MA. Though these two specimens are without any collection details, the collection locality (ex Hortus Regius Matritensis meaning from the Royal Garden of Madrid) in Lagasca’s handwriting ( Burdet, 1976) on the herbarium specimen with Acc. no. 237731 and the reference to P. parviflora in the Lagasca’s List (1816b) prefixed by “*” and suffixed by H.R.M. indicate that live plants were cultivated in the Botanical Garden of Madrid and were available to Lagasca while describing P. parviflora . This specimen is more consistent with the protologue in having an apparently sprawling- procumbent habit, divaricate branching, weak, ridged branches, and ovate- obovate leaves with oblique bases and could be considered as its original material. Hence, the specimen with Acc. No. 237731 is selected here as the lectotype of P. lagascae under Art. 9.4 of the Shenzhen Code ( Turland et al., 2018). The specimen with Acc. no. 237723 without any collection locality is more allied to P. pruinosa L. and has an apparently erect habit with glandular- hairy aerial parts and more or less circular leaves.