Larnax schjellerupiae S. Leiva & Quipuscoa (2003: 32)

Deanna, Rocío, González, Segundo Leiva & Barboza, Gloria E., 2014, Four new species and eighteen lectotypifications of Larnax from Ecuador and Peru and a new synonym of Deprea orinocensis (Solanaceae: Solanoideae, Physalideae), Phytotaxa 167 (1), pp. 1-34 : 31

Larnax schjellerupiae S. Leiva & Quipuscoa (2003: 32)

Lectotype (designated here):— PERU. San Martin: Huallaga, La Fila, entre Añazco Pueblo y Leguía , 2000 m, 10 September 2000, S. Leiva & V. Quipuscoa 2479 ( HUT 40030 !).

The isotype at HUT is the only existing type specimen of L. schjellerupiae consisting of a branch with only three fruits: two well visible and the third hidden under the leaves ( Fig. 18 F ). This branch without any flowers could be assigned to any other Larnax species with inflated fruiting calyces. Fortunately, the illustration of the protologue shows the most representative characters of this species ( Leiva González & Quipuscoa Silvestre 2002). Up to the present, L. schjellerupiae S. Leiva & Quipuscoa (2003: 32) has not been collected since 2000, probably due to its inaccessible habitat in the Peruvian forest in the Huallaga-Saposoa basin.

Figures

FIGURE 18. A–E. Larnax sawyeriana. A. Lectotype (HUT). B. Flowers in a branch. C. Branch. D. Flower in anthesis. E. Flower in lateral view and fruits. F. Lectotype L. schjellerupiae (HUT). A and F reproduced with permission of Herbario Truxillense, Universidad Nacional de La Libertad-Trujillo.