lectotypes in NAF?

[Thomas Lammers]

At 02:59 PM 8/24/01 +0200, you wrote:

>Obviously "Type locality" is not an "indication of the (lecto)type" and
>the types published with this indication alone are ineffective !
>The (holo/lecto/neo)type is currently a specimen (or illustration), and
>such a specimen must be indicated non ambiguously in the publication

The problem being that sometimes the author IS specific.  For Lobelioideae,
Vol. 32A (5 Jan 1943), Rogers McVaugh often cited specimen and
herbarium.  E.g.,the "type locality" for Parishella californica A. Gray is
followed by "Parish 1328 (Gray!)", indicating a specimen at
Harvard.  Sometimes this is even done for heterotypic synonyms.  He isn't
clear, though, on when this is citation of an unambiguous holotype and
possible designation of a lectotype.  One has to have seen the protologue
to even begin to determine that.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

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