On the identity and typification of Solanum brasilianum Dunal (Solanaceae)

By

Ribeiro-Silva, Suelma
Knapp, Sandra
Proença, Carolyn

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

76

Pages

23-29

Subjects

Brazil , epitype , Leonard Plukenet , Nomenclature , Solanum , William Dampier , William Sherard

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.76.11031

 

Abstract

Solanum brasilianum Dunal was described by Dunal in 1813 with reference only to an illustration in an 18th century work by Leonard Plukenet. The plate is difficult to interpret and no explicitly related specimens were available so the name S. brasilianum has long been regarded as “unresolved” and has never been used. Material matching the Plukenet plate was discovered in the herbarium of the University of Oxford (OXF) by Stephen Harris during his study of the English privateer William Dampier’s Brazilian collection. The specimen is referable to a common Brazilian Solanum that is a member of the Torva clade, Solanum paniculatum L., making S. brasilianum Dunal a heterotypic synonym. We lectotypify S. brasilianum here, and designate an epitype using the Dampier material from OXF.