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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-04-27
Page range: 162–162
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Erratum: unnecessary neotypification of Psidiastrum (Myrtaceae)

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, campus Sorocaba, Rod. João Leme dos Santos km 110, Sorocaba, SP, 18052-780, Brazil
Myrtaceae Myrteae Eugenia Eudicots

Abstract

The only species of Psidiastrum, P. dubium Bello (1881: 272), native to Puerto Rico, is a synonym of Eugenia axillaris (Swartz 1788: 78) Willdenow (1799: 960), a Caribbean/Central American species. In our 2016 paper on sections in Eugenia Linnaeus (1753: 470), Mazine et al. 2016), a neotype was designated for P. dubium.  Nevertheless, this had already been done in 2015 by Santiago-Valentín et al. (2015: 335). Therefore the neotypification presented by Mazine et al. (2016) should be disregarded. This is a minor point, but I hope it helps in future publications.