Mariscus albopilosus C.B.Clarke

Mariscus albopilosus C.B.Clarke View in CoL

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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.