Cycad Names | Aulacophyllum ortgiesii Regel

Aulacophyllum ortgiesii Regel [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Gartenflora 25: 141. (1876). [BHL]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: G. Wallis 76
Locality: Colombia
Type Location(s): HT:LE
Type notes: Holotype identified in Stevenson & Sabato , Taxon 35: 134-143(1986): "In the protologue, Regel mentions that he was basing this description on material collected in Colombia by Wallis. There are two specimens in LE with this information on their labels. One has a label written in ink and the other in a different hand, in pencil. The label written in ink is definitely in Regel's handwriting and because it is the only one is considered by us to be the holotype."

This name is considered a synonym of Zamia chigua Seem.

Reference Links (3)

Calculated Reference Reference Links Journal Comment(s)
1986
Stevenson DW, Sabato S. 1986. Typification of names in Zamia L. and Aulacophyllum Regel (Zamiaceae). Taxon 35 (3): 134-144.
Taxon
Typification
1884
Thiselton-Dyer WT. 1884. Cycadaceae. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3 : 190-195.
Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. Botany.
2001
Stevenson DW. 2001. Orden Cycadales. Fl. Colombia (1983+) 21 : 1-91.
Flora de Colombia
As synonym of Zamia chigua