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Issue: Vol. 382 No. 3: 12 December 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.382.3.1
Page range: 243–254
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 2

Three unpublished letters by Felix de Avelar Brotero reveal new information on his herbarium and types

Department of Botany, P.O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa; Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001-455 Coimbra, Portugal;
Department of Botany, P.O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa; Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001-455 Coimbra, Portugal;
Centre for Applied Ecology Prof. Baeta Neves, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Botanical history Callicocca ipecacuanha personal herbarium Portuguese flora typification Eudicots

Abstract

Three unpublished letters written to A.P. de Candolle and C.H. Persoon by Felix de Avelar Brotero (1744–1828), in many ways the doyen of Portuguese botany, indicate that the personal herbarium that he established early in his career was destroyed after his death. The correspondence also gives an indication of the whereabouts of material that could possibly serve as the types of names that Brotero published. Information on herbaria that hold specimens collected by Brotero is updated and presented. A lectotype is designated for Callicocca ipecacuanha Brot.