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Issue: Vol. 658 No. 2: 3 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.658.2.5
Page range: 178-190
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Exploring Pico de São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe), a hotspot for collecting plant specimens during the colonial period: collectors and itineraries

Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa.
Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa.
Center for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Global Change and Sustainability Institute (CHANGE) & Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C2, 5º Piso, Sala 2.5.15b Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. Gulf of Guinea Biodiversity Center, Bairro do Hospital, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe.
Atlantic Ocean collections collectors Gulf of Guinea precise localities General

Abstract

The peak Pico de São Tomé on the island of São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea) is a locality where many specimens that became types of vascular plant names were collected during colonial times. Determining the routes the collectors took to ascend the peak will help determine some collecting localities. Gustav Mann was the first collector to explore the region; his itinerary is analysed and mapped based on his correspondence. The itineraries of ten further expeditions that ascended the peak are analysed. Collections that became types of vascular plant species names are recorded.

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