https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/issue/feed Phytotaxa 2023-05-29T09:51:55+12:00 Zhi-Qiang Zhang zhangz@landcareresearch.co.nz Open Journal Systems <p><strong>Phytotaxa </strong>is world's largest journal in botanical taxonomy. </p> https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.598.4.1 <p><strong>Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China</strong></p> 2023-05-29T08:12:45+12:00 YUN LIN 110791833@qq.com HAI-YAN BI 37195405@qq.com JUN SUN 249779892@qq.com QIAN SUN sunqian2@sztu.edu.cn <p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Revision and collation of Chinese type specimens from the Harvard University Herbaria and the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of New York Botanical Garden led to the discovery of errors in the designation of type specimens in the protologues of several taxa names. Following the Article 9.2 of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (</span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Shenzhen Code</em></span><span lang="en-GB">, 2018), the typographical errors of collecting number in the protologues of 64 taxa from China were corrected. </span></span></span></span></p> 2023-05-29T00:00:00+12:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Phytotaxa https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.598.4.2 <p><strong><em>Parodia hofackeriana</em> (Cactaceae—Notocacteae), a new species from southwest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</strong></p> 2023-05-29T08:12:47+12:00 ANABELA SILVEIRA DE OLIVEIRA anabela.biol@gmail.com RODRIGO CORRÊA PONTES rodrigocorreapontes@gmail.com <p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">The South American genus </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Parodia</em></span><span lang="en-GB"> includes taxa that are not sufficiently known from the taxonomical point of view. Based on field surveys, and review of nomenclatural types, specimens, and literature, we found an interesting species of </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Parodia</em></span><span lang="en-GB"> from rocky areas in the southwest region of Rio Grande do Sul, which is here described as </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Parodia hofackeriana sp. nov.</em></span><span lang="en-GB"> Geographic distribution, phenology, habitat, conservation, and morphological affinities with related species are provided.</span></span></span></span></p> 2023-05-29T00:00:00+12:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Phytotaxa https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.598.4.3 <p><strong><em>Restrepia santanderensis</em> (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), a new species from the western slope of the eastern Andes in Colombia</strong></p> 2023-05-29T08:12:48+12:00 NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES nicolaiequal@gmail.com JUAN SEBASTIÁN MORENO semoreno113@gmail.com ADAM P. KARREMANS adam.karremans@ucr.ac.cr KAREN GIL-AMAYA kgilecologa@gmail.com <p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">A new species of the orchid genus </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Restrepia</em></span><span lang="en-GB"> from the department of Santander, in the western slope of the eastern Andes of Colombia, is described and illustrated. </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>Restrepia santanderensis</em></span><span lang="en-GB"> is compared with the morphologically similar </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>R. flosculata </em></span><span lang="en-GB">and </span><span lang="en-GB"><em>R. mendozae</em></span><span lang="en-GB">,</span> <span lang="en-GB">which share having short inflorescences and small to medium yellow flowers. The new species can be recognized by its ramicauls prominently covered by brown-dotted sheaths, with the uppermost sheath elongate as long as the peduncle, the sepals partially spreading, the synsepal with glandular trichomes along the veins of the adaxial surface, the straight petals and the rectangular lip with truncate apex. Comparisons with similar species and comments on its ecology are provided.</span></span></span></span></p> 2023-05-29T00:00:00+12:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Phytotaxa