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Issue: Vol. 224 No. 2: 28 August 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.224.2.7
Page range: 199–200
Abstract views: 24
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Neotypification of Pancratium sanctae-mariae (Amaryllidaceae)

Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, 7 Koregaon Road, Pune – 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, 7 Koregaon Road, Pune – 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
Angiosperm Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur – 416 004, Maharashtra, India.
Botanical Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, 7 Koregaon Road, Pune – 411 001, Maharashtra, India.
Pancratium sanctae-mariae Amaryllidaceae Neotypification Moncots Canary Islands

Abstract

The genus Pancratium was established by Linnaeus (1762: 417). This genus is represented by ca. 20 species, mainly distributed in the Canary Islands, West Africa, Mediterranean, and Namibia (Mabberley 2008). Hooker (1892) enumerated 6 species and Karthikeyan et al. (1989) enumerated 7 species from India. At present the genus is represented by 8 species including the newly described Pancratium nairii Sasikala & Kumari (2013: 543). Pancratium sanctae-mariae Blatter & Hallberg (1921: 52) is endemic to Western Ghats in India (Ahmedulla & Nayar, 1986). An examination of specimens at BLAT, BSI and CAL (acronyms according to Thiers 2015) and scrutiny of literature shows that the name P. sanctae-mariae is lacking nomenclatural type.