Triplaris noli-tangere Wedd. (1849: 264)

Koenemann, Daniel Mark & Burke, Janelle M., 2025, A nomenclatural synopsis of the genus Triplaris (Polygonaceae), Phytotaxa 700 (2), pp. 115-146 : 130

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.700.2.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16727402
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scientific name	Triplaris noli-tangere Wedd. (1849: 264)
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Triplaris noli-tangere Wedd. (1849: 264) View in CoL

Type (further designated here):— BRAZIL. Mato Grosso State, western Brazil, Formiguieira, July and August 1845 (fr), M. H. Weddell 3378 (lectotype: P [ P 734709 , digital image!]; isolectotype: P [ P 734710 , digital image!]) .

Notes:— Weddell (1849: 264) reported “ Matto-Grosso ... Formigueira ” as the locus classicus. Unfortunately, we cannot locate a Formigueira in Mato Grosso State, but only a Formigueiro in Rio Grande do Sul. Note that this latter is so distant from Mato Grosso that it seems unlikely to be the locality. Formigueira may be a section of the city of Várzea Grande in Mato Grosso.

Brandbyge (1986) designated a Weddell collection (no. 3378) deposited at P as the lectotype (note that Weddell (1849: 264) had reported “ Cat . nostr. [Catalogus nostrum], n° 3378” in the protologue). Hand-written annotation labels by Brandbyge indicated that another specimen ( P 734710) is an isolectotype. In his treatment, Brandbyge (1986) was not specific in his lectotypification, citing only a specimen at P (without distinguishing among the multiple speciments present). According to Art. 9.17 of ICBN, this is an incomplete lectotypification. As a result, we here complete the lectotypification of Brandbyge (1986) and designate P 734709 as the lectotype and P 734710 as an isolectotype.