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Issue: Vol. 470 No. 3: 5 November 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.470.3.7
Page range: 259–262
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 1

Is Urginea zambesiaca a species of Zingela (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae)?

Biodiversity Research, Assessment and Monitoring, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 701265, Overport, 4067 South Africa. School of Chemistry & Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa.
Depto. de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales (dCARN), Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
National Herbarium and Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box A889, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Hyacinthaceae Urgineoideae Urginea zambesiaca Vera-duthiea Zingela Asparagales Monocots

Abstract

Urginea zambesiaca Baker (1873: 223) (Hyacinthaceae, Urgineoideae) was originally described from Mozambique and has been erroneously taxonomically interpreted in recent decades (e.g. Polhill 1962, Kativu & Drummond 1994, Manning & Goldblatt 2018, Manning 2019). Among those interpretations, the recently described Zingela pooleyorum Crouch et al. (2018: 36) has been reduced to its synonymy (Manning 2019); the inappropriateness of that step requires clarification.