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Issue: Vol. 494 No. 2: 6 April 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-06
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.494.2.9
Page range: 250–250
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new names in Holothrix (Orchideae, Orchidaceae)

Bews Herbarium, Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, 3209 Scottsville, South Africa
Bews Herbarium, Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, 3209 Scottsville, South Africa Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche scientifique, Rue A. Lavalée, 1, 1080 Brussels, Belgium
nomenclature new combinations Orchidaceae Monocots

Abstract

Le Péchon et al. (2019) found that Bartholina Brown in Aiton (1813: 194) is deeply embedded in Holothrix Richard in Lindley (1835: 257). Holothrix includes around 46 species with the highest diversity in southern and eastern Africa, whereas Bartholina includes only two species endemic to the Greater Cape Floristic Region (WCSP, 2021). Bartholina predates Holothrix, and to preserve nomenclatural stability, a proposal for conservation has been published (Le Pechon & Bytebier, 2019), and so we would like to make the new names in Holothrix available.