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Issue: Vol. 260 No. 2: 11 May 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-05-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.260.2.10
Page range: 199–200
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 2

The correct assignment of the lectotype of Vochysia guianensis (Vochysiaceae)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Postal Code 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Plant Biology Graduate Program, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 100 E 24th Street, 78712-15983, Austin, TX, United States of America
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA, 92521 United States of America
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Postal Code 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Postal Code 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
General Eudicots

Abstract

Vochysia Aublet (1775: 18) encompasses ca. 140 species, distributed from Mexico to southern Brazil. They are mainly large trees, with spurred yellow flowers, usually 3-petaled and with a single fertile stamen (Kawasaki 2007). The genus was described by Aublet (1775) in his work on plants from French Guiana as ‘Vochy’, taken from a native name among the Caribs, and after several latinizations the form ‘Vochysia’, proposed by Poiret (1808), was conserved.