Sabdariffa multiformis (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 : 65-66

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

( Fig. 22 e, f .)

Hibiscus multiformis A.St-Hil., Fl. Bras. Merid. 4th edn, 1(7): 246 (1828), non Steud. (1840); Hibiscus furcellatus var. multiformis (A.St.- Hil.) Gürke in C.F.P. von Martius et al., Fl. Bras. 12(3): 563 (1892). Type citation: ‘ Crescit im paludosis inter vicum vulgo Nossa Sñra da Conçeçao et tabernam vulgo Toporoca. Florebat Martio. ’ Type: Brazil: Minas Gerais, Nossa Sñra da Conçeçao , [Mar.] 1816, A . St. - Hilaire Catal. C1 n° 425 (lecto, here designated: P 02285929 !; isolecto: MPU 016520 !, P 02285927 !, P 02285928 !). Residual syn: Brazil: Toporoca, 1816, A . St. - Hilaire Catal. C1 n° 890 (syn: MPU 017482 !) .

Descriptions and illustrations

De Saint-Hilaire (1828, p. 246); Gürke (1892, p. 563); Krapovickas and Fryxell (2004, p. 70); Rigueiral et al. (2019, pp. 14–15, fig. 4k, l); Camargo et al. (2022, pp. 35–36, fig. 1e); Coutinho and Fernandes-Júnior (2024, fig.).

Typification

Krapovickas and Fryxell (2004) designated material at P as the holotype of H. multiformis . However, there are three sheets of the Saint-Hilaire gathering at P ( P barcodes 022855927, 022855928 and 022855929). The sheet P 02285929 is here designated as the lectotype as this is the only sheet with a flower at P .

Distribution

Minas Gerais , Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 22. (a, b) Sabdariffa meraukensis. Photographs by Russell Barrett, Kimberley. (c, d) Sabdariffa mollis. Photos: Russell Barrett, NW Kimberley. (e, f) Sabdariffa multiformis. Photographs by Danilo A. Zavatin, ©.