Bertiera acutiflora (DC.) A. C. Berger, 2025

Berger, Andreas, 2025, Bertiera acutiflora (Rubiaceae, Bertiereae), a new combination based on the overlooked Psychotria acutiflora, PhytoKeys 251, pp. 161-166 : 161-166

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.251.140272
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14679737
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D318843-F054-5B76-BB92-45229C5C4788
treatment provided by	PhytoKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Bertiera acutiflora (DC.) A. C. Berger
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Bertiera acutiflora (DC.) A. C. Berger comb. nov.

Fig. 1 A – C View Figure 1

= Bertiera procumbens K. Schum. & K. Krause View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40 (3): 328. 1908, syn. nov. Type: Ecuador. Guayas, Balao: “ prope Bulao in silvis ”, January 1892, H. F. A. von Eggers 14282 ( B †; lectotype, here designated: BR 0000005305544 image!; isolectotypes: US 00138193 image!, F 0068504 F fragm. image!, M 0187082 image!, M 0187083 image!).

Basionym.

Psychotria acutiflora DC., Prodr. 4: 506. 1830. ≡ Uragoga acutiflora (DC.) Kuntze View in CoL , Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 959. 1891. Type: Ecuador. Guayas, Guayaquil: “ Guayaquil ”, 1790, T. Haenke s. n. (lectotype, here designated: PR 612078 image!; isolectotype: G-DC 00667379!).

Distribution.

Ecuador: Cañar ( J. H. Vargas López et al. 512, MO- 1562740 image!), Chimborazo, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, Pichincha. Colombia: Island Gorgona ( Andersson and Ståhl 1999).

H	University of Helsinki
F	Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department
A	Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum
B	Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet
BR	Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection
M	Botanische Staatssammlung München
T	Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics
PR	National Museum in Prague
J	University of the Witwatersrand

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida
Order	Gentianales
Family	Rubiaceae
Genus	Bertiera