Triplaris schomburgkiana Benth.

Koenemann, Daniel Mark & Burke, Janelle M., 2025, A nomenclatural synopsis of the genus Triplaris (Polygonaceae), Phytotaxa 700 (2), pp. 115-146 : 135

Triplaris schomburgkiana Benth. in Hook. (1845: 628–629)

Type (further designated here):— BRITISH GUIANA. Ro.Schomburgk s.n. (lectotype: K [ K 585050 , digital image!]; isolectotypes: K [ K 585027 , K 585029 (frag.), digital image!]) .

Notes:— British Guiana no longer exists, having been replaced by the present-day country of Guyana. There were a number of border disputes in the history of British Guiana, notably with Venezuela and Suriname, some of which remain to the present day.

The protologue gives the type as “Schomburgk, 1st. Coll. (not numbered).” Brandbyge (1986) had located such a specimen at K and lectotypified it. There are however, three Triplaris specimens of Schomburgk s.n. from British Guiana located at K. Brandbyge did not annotate any of them as types. Thus, the work of Brandbyge (1986) represents an incomplete lectotypification (Art. 9.17 of ICBN). We here complete Brandbyge (1986) and designate one specimen ( K 585050) as the lectotype and the other two ( K 585027 and the fragment on K 585029) as isolectotypes. We chose K 585050 for the lectotype as it contains both vegetative and reproductive material.