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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-08-25
Page range: 299–300
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Nomenclature of Brochoneura and Cephalosphaera (Myristicaceae), with a replacement name, Neobrochoneura, and new combinations in this genus for Madagascan species previously included in Brochoneura

Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
African flora Myristicaceae Magnoliids

Abstract

The genus name Brochoneura Warburg (1895a: 179; also mentioned in Warburg 1895b: 272) was published with a single species described in it, B. usambarensis Warburg (1895a: 180; also mentioned in Warburg 1895b: 272) from East Africa. Note that both Warburg (1895a) and Warburg (1895b) were published in July 1895 (Stafleu & Cowan 1976: 763). The description of Brochoneura was though clearly published by Warburg (1895a: 179). In Warburg (1895a: 179, but not in Warburg 1895b: 272), reference was also made to three unnamed Madagascan species that likely belong in Brochoneura, but without combinations having been made for them in that genus. In a subsequent publication, Warburg (1897) included these three Madagascan species in Brochoneura, as B. madagascariensis (Lamarck 1791: 163) Warburg (1897: 234), B. acuminata (Lamarck 1791: 164) Warburg (1897: 237), and B. vouri (Baillon 1885: 454) Warburg (1897: 238). Warburg (1897) also retained his earlier B. usambarensis, which dates from 1895, in Brochoneura, but indicated it with a “(?)”, as was done by Warburg (1895b: 272).