Urochloa ovalis (Stapf) Zon

Urochloa ovalis (Stapf) Zon View in CoL

Urochloa ovalis (Stapf) Zon (2019) View in CoL 214. — [ Panicum ovale R.Br. (1814) View in CoL lxiii (lxii in error), nom. nud.] — Brachiaria ovalis Stapf (1919) View in CoL 546. — Lectotype (designated by Van der Zon 2019): Salt s.n. (lecto K (fragm. + illustr.) [K000282117]; isolecto BM [BM000923148]), Abyssinia, no date.

Panicum nudiglume Hochst. var. major Balf.f.(1888) 311. — Type: B. Balfour 47 (holo K [K000244735]), Socotra, near Galonsir, Feb.–Mar. 1880.

Brachiaria glauca Stapf (1919) View in CoL 550. — Lectotype (designated here): B. Balfour 47 (lecto K [K000244735]), Socotra, near Galonsir, Feb.–Mar. 1880.

Brachiaria somalensis C.E.Hubb. (1941) View in CoL 189. — Type: Gillet 4903 (holo K [K000282119]; iso K [K000282118]), Somalia, Buramo-Warieto, 31 Jan. 1933.

Distribution — Chad, Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia,

Somalia, Kenya, most of the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan.

Nomenclatural notes — Van der Zon (2019) selected the K specimen of Salt s.n. as the lectotype of Brachiaria ovalis because Stapf based his name on the invalid name Panicum ovale of Brown (1814), a nomen nudum, which links to that material. The K specimen consists of a few spikelets and a pencil drawing of the material deposited by Salt at BM.

Rudov et al. (2020) published the same combination in Urochloa , U. ovalis , which was therefore superfluous.