Astrocaryum kewense Barbosa Rodrigues (1903b: 70)

Lima, Gustavo Pereira, Amorim, Gabriela & Jr, Eduardo Bezerra De Almeida, 2024, An overview of Astrocaryum (Bactridinae, Arecaceae) types from Brazil described by João Barbosa Rodrigues, Phytotaxa 675 (3), pp. 191-216 : 213

18. Astrocaryum kewense Barbosa Rodrigues (1903b: 70) .

Type:— BRAZIL. Province of Goyas: inter Barreira do Veado & Morro Redondo , 1895/1896, Glaziou 22279 (holotype K image! , isotypes MO image! , P image! ).

Notes:— Astrocaryum kewense stands out for being the only Astrocaryum species described by Barbosa Rodrigues that still has specimens remaining today. The type materials were collected by Auguste Glaziou (the gathering Glaziou 22279), a renowned French researcher, in the former province of Goyaz, while he was studying the location for the new capital of the country for the Brazilian government ( Barbosa Rodrigues 1903 ). Glaziou deposited one specimen of this gathering in the Kew Herbarium (K). This only specimen of the K herbarium was cited by Barbosa Rodrigues in the protologue of A. kewense (Barbosa Rodriugues 1903b) . Following the guidelines of McNeill (2014), we established this specimen as the holotype of A. kewense . In our investigations, we also found isotypes in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium (MO) and Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Herbarium (P). The taxonomic identity and validity of this species are currently considered uncertain, according to POWO (2024) and Vianna (2024).