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Issue: Vol. 434 No. 1: 24 February 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-24
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.434.1.10
Page range: 123–127
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 2

Typification of the names Euphorbia berteroana and Euphorbia bicephala (Euphorbiaceae)

Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Bertero Dominican Republic Guadeloupe nomenclature section Anisophyllum Eudicots taxonomy

Abstract

Euphorbia subsection Hypericifoliae (Euphorbiaceae, Malpighiales) comprises 365 species distributed nearly worldwide and includes E. berteroana, a species widespread in Central and South America and mistakenly reported for Italy. This species was described for the first time by Sprengel based on material collected by Bertero. In the present work we provide a discussion of the main typification issues and the typification of the name E. berteroana and its synonym E. bicephala.