Sabdariffa laxiflora (A.St.-Hil.) Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M., 2025

Barrett, Russell L., Yoshikawa, Vania Nobuko, McLay, Todd G. B., Duarte, Marília Cristina, Mwachala, Geoffrey & Hanes, Margaret M., 2025, Reinstatement of Sabdariffa and new combinations to support a monophyletic concept of Hibiscus (Malvaceae: Hibisceae), Australian Systematic Botany 38 (3), pp. 1-97 : 60

Sabdariffa laxiflora (A.St.-Hil.) M.C. Duarte & Yoshikawa, comb. nov.

Hibiscus laxiflorus A.St.-Hil., Fl. Bras. Merid. , 4th edn, 1(7): 245 (1828); Abelmoschus laxiflorus Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst . 1: 310 (1842). Type citation: ‘prope pagum Corumbá da parte australi provinciae Goyas. Florebat Junio.’ Type: Brazil: Province de Goyaz [Goiás], [June] 1816, A.St.-Hilaire Catal. C1 n° 679 (lectotype, here designated: P 02285922!; isolectotype: P 02285923!, P 02285924!).

Hibiscus cerradoensis M.Y.Menzel, Fryxell & F.D.Wilson , Brittonia 35: 218–220, fig. 18 (1983). Type: Brazil: Goiás, Mossâmedes, Serra Dourada, ~ 15 km S of Goiás Velho , 1000 m, 11 May 1973, W.R. Anderson , S. R . Hill , R . Reis dos Santos , & R . Souza 10060 (holo: UB 00037475 ; iso: NY 00221738 , NY 00221739 , TEX 00371874 , TEX 00371875 ) .

Descriptions and illustrations

De Saint-Hilaire (1828, p. 245); Menzel et al. (1983 a, pp. 218–220, fig. 18); Krapovickas and Fryxell (2004, pp. 83–86, fig. 12); Coutinho and Fernandes-Júnior (2024).

Typification

There are three specimens of Saint-Hilaire 679 at P and we selected P 02285922 as lectotype as this has full information in the label and possesses flowers and fruits .

Distribution

Bolivia and Goiás, Brazil.