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Mariscus albopilosus C. B. Clarke

Creators

  • 1. Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, B- 1860 Meise (Belgium) filip. verloove @ plantentuinmeise. be (corresponding author)
  • 2. Directorate of Hortobágy National Park H- 4024, Sumen utca 2. Debrecen (Hungary)

Description

Mariscus albopilosus C.B.Clarke

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Flora of Tropical Africa 8 (3): 394 (Clarke 1901 -1902).

ACCEPTED NAME (POWO 2025). — Cyperus albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük., Botaniska Notiser 1934: 69 (Kükenthal 1934).

LECTOTYPE. — Malawi • Zomba; XII.1896; Whyte s.n.; lectotype (here designated): K[K000362622].

REMARKS

Clarke (1901 -1902: 394) cited two gatherings in his protologue of the species: “Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte!”. According to Browning & Gordon-Gray (1993) both are preserved in K (barcodes K000362622andK000362656). Images of both unnumbered collections are available on the internet via JSTOR. They are very similar, annotated by both Clarke and Kükenthal and could both serve for (lecto-)typification purposes. The Whyte collection from Mount Zomba (K000362622) was already cited as ‘holotype’ (erroneously so) by Hoenselaar et al. (2010); it is here designated as lectotype for this name.

Notes

Published as part of Verloove, Filip & Mesterházy, Attila, 2025, Lectotypification of names in the genus Cyperus s. l. (Cyperaceae) occurring in tropical West Africa, pp. 275-284 in Adansonia (3) (3) 47 (14) on page 283, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a14, http://zenodo.org/record/17223783

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF3987E0182BFFA79262FEDC5899D6CD

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.17223803 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5252/adansonia2025v47a14 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17223783 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/5300FF981821FFAD9374FFCB5A6DD53D (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/AF3987E0182BFFA79262FEDC5899D6CD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/302301281 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/312481/taxon/AF3987E0182BFFA79262FEDC5899D6CD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
K
Material sample ID
K000362622
Scientific name authorship
C. B. Clarke
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Mariscus
Species
albopilosus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype

References

  • CLARKE C. B. 1901 - 1902. - Cyperaceae, in THISELTON-DYER W. T. (ed.), Flora of Tropical Africa. Vol. 8. Lovell Reeve & Co., London: 266-524. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18092394
  • POWO 2025. - Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/(accessed: 15 January 2025).
  • KUKENTHAL G. 1934. - Cyperaceae, in NORLINDH T. & WEIMARCK H. (eds), Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora von Sud- Rhodesia 2. Botaniska Notiser 1934: 64-83.
  • BROWNING J. & GORDON-GRAY K. 1993. - Notes on tropical African Cyperaceae. Nordic Journal of Botany 13 (5): 507-510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.1993.tb00092.x
  • HOENSELAAR K., VERDCOURT B. & BEENTJE H. J. 2010. - Cyperaceae, in BEENTJE H. J. (ed), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London: 1-466.