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Zamia erosa O.F.Cook & G.N.Collins [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 8(2): 267. (1903). [BHL]

Etymology: From the Latin erosus (‘irregularly notched, toothed, or indented’), referring to the irregularly toothed leaflet margins. [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: O.F. Cook & G.N. Collins s.n., NA Sheet #88468, Negative #2376
Locality: Puerto Rico, Vega Baja , 1899
Type Location(s): NT:NA
Type notes: From Calonje et al. (2010), Taxon 59(2): 637-642: "The lectotype designation of Zamia erosa O.F. Cook & G.N. Collins by Eckenwalder (1980) is corrected to a neotype as it does not constitute original material on which Cook & Collins based their description. The neotype designation is itself superseded, as the specimen selected by Eckenwalder is in serious conflict with the protologue, a conclusion based on overlooked descriptive and geographic information in the protologue, and new collections recently made near the type locality. A new neotype is designated."

Taxonomic Synonyms:

Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Vulnerable C1

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Puerto Rico (Arecibo)

Puerto Rico (Quebradillas)

Puerto Rico (Vega Baja)

Reference Links (6)

Calculated Reference Reference Links Journal Comment(s)
2012
Meerow AW, Francisco-Ortega J, Ayala-Silva T, Stevenson DW, Nakamura K. 2012. Population genetics of Zamia in Puerto Rico, a study with ten SSR loci. p. 204-223.
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden
As Zamia amblyphyllidia
1987
Stevenson DW. 1987. Again the West Indian zamias. Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 42 (3) : 23-27.
Fairchild Tropical Garden Bulletin
As synonym
2010
Calonje M, Meerow AW. 2010. The typification of Zamia erosa and the priority of that name over Z. amblyphyllidia. Taxon 59 (2): 637-642.
Taxon
Designation of neotype
1903
Cook OF, Collins GN. 1903. Economic plants of Porto Rico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 8 (2): 57-269.
Contributions from the United States National Herbarium
Protologue description
2022
Haynes JL. 2022. Etymological compendium of cycad names. Phytotaxa 550 (1) : 1-31.
Phytotaxa
2009
Broome T. 2009. Growing Zamia erosa and Z. pumila in central Florida. Cycad Newslett. 32 (2) : 5-6.
Cycad Newsletter