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Validation of the name Vochysia moskovitsiana (Vochysiaceae), with corrected type

citation

ISAU HUAMANPOTO CHUPICACA¹ ¹Herbario CUZ, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú. E-mail: andeanwayna@gmail.com

The name Vochysia moskovitsiana Huamantupa (2012: 142) was not validly published due to errors in the citation of the

holotype. In the type paragraph following the name citation, a single gathering but more than one specimen, E. Gudiño 1190

(QCNE, MO) was cited as the type. This is a defective citation according to the International Code for Nomenclature (ICN)

Article 40.7 (McNeill et al. 2012) because a single specimen is not indicated as the holotype. Although a separate collection,

Gudiño & Gualinga 1622 (MO), is cited in the caption to Figure 2 as the holotype, the same specimen also appears in the list

of paratypes on page 147. Thus the citation of type is entirely ambiguous, and this work does not constitute valid publication.

The citation is corrected and the name validated as follows:

Vochysia moskovitsiana Huamanpoto sp. nov.

= Vochysia moskovitsiana Huamanpoto, Arnaldoa 19 (2): 142–148. 2012, nom. inval.

Type:—ECUADOR. Prov. Pastaza, Cant. Pastaza, Localidad exacta: Pozo petrolero ―Moretecocha‖ de Arco. Río Landayacu.

75 km al este de Puyo. Bosque húmedo Tropical. 01˚34’S 077˚25’W, 580 m, 4 December 1990, E. Gudiño 1190 (holotype:

QCNE!; isotype: MO!).

Paratype:—ECUADOR. Prov. Pastaza, Cant. Pastaza, 01°30’S, 77°30’W, 18 December 1991, Gudiño & Gualinga

1622 (MO!, QCNE!).

Diagnosis (from Huamanpoto 2012):—Large trees to 40 m. Branchlets, leaves and inflorescence ferrugineous-tomentose.

Leaves with laminae 16–23 × 5–7.8 cm. Flowers yellow, 1 to 3 per cincinnus, the spurred sepal 1.2–1.5 × 0.2–0.3 cm, the

petal solitary, about equalling the stamen. Differs from Vochysia schomburgkii Warming (1875: 78) by the leaves over 16 cm

long, from Vochysia eximia Ducke (1915: 45) by the larger stature of the tree, and from both species by the petals equalling

the stamens in length.

Full description and illustrations:—see Huamantupa (2012).

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank the editorial staff of the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), and of the Tropicos Database at Missouri

Botanical Garden, for discovering and pointing out this problem, and especially Fred Barrie (MO), Nancy Hensold (F), and

Kanchi Gandhi (IPNI), for their assistance.

References

Ducke, A. (1915) Plantes nouvelles ou peu connues de la region Amazonienne. Archivos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 1: 45.

Huamanpoto, I. (2012) Vochysia moskovitsiana (Vochysiaceae), una nueva especie de los bosques Andino-Amazónicos de Perú, Ecuador

y Colombia. Arnaldoa 19 (2): 142–148.

McNeill, J., Barrie, F.R., Buck, W.R., Demoulin, V., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D.L., Herendeen, P.S., Knapp, S., Marhold, K., Prado, J.,

Prud’homme van Reine, W.F., Smith, G.F., Wiersema, J.H. & Turland, N.J. (2012) International code of nomenclature for algae,

fungi and plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, 240 pp.

Warming, E. (1875) Vochysiaceae et Trigoniaceae. In: Martius, C.F.P. von (Ed.) Flora Brasiliensis 13 (2): 78.

Accepted by Marcos Sobral: 13 Sept. 2016; published: 29 Sept. 2016 293

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