Notes on Early Land Plants Today*. 85. Metzgeria warnstorffii, an earlier name for the African Metzgeria madagassa

Lars Söderström; Anders Hagborg

doi:10.25227/linbg.24522

How to translate text using browser tools

2 March 2023 Notes on Early Land Plants Today*. 85. Metzgeria warnstorffii, an earlier name for the African Metzgeria madagassa

Lars Söderström, Anders Hagborg

Author Affiliations +

Lindbergia, 2023(1): (2023). https://doi.org/10.25227/linbg.24522

Abstract

Kuwahara (1984) synonymized Metzgeria madagassa Steph. and Metzgeria thomeensis Steph. under the name Metzgeria australis Steph. So (2004) rejected this synonymy and recognized Metzgeria madagassa from Africa (excluding the syntype from Sikkim) with Metzgeria warnstorffii Steph., Metzgeria camerunensis Steph. and Metzgeria limbatosetosa Steph. as synonyms. Her treatment has generally been followed by subsequent authors of African Metzgeria. However, she overlooked the fact that Metzgeria warnstorffii is the oldest valid name.

Formal treatment

Metzgeria warnstorffii Steph. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20(3): 305, 1895 (Stephani 1895).

Lectotype (So 2004): Cameroun, Yumbo, 1080 m, P. Dusén 652, 17 Apr 1892, FH as M. camerunensis; isolectotypes: BM, FI.

= Metzgeria madagassa Steph. Bull. Herb. Boissier 7(12): 944. 1899 (Stephani 1899), syn. in So (2004). Lectotype (Kuwahara 1984: 35): Madagascar, Besson s.n., herb. F. Renauld 292, G 11768 (= G00046681, www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=141419&lang=en; isolectotype: FH as M. renauldii). ≡ Metzgeria madagassa Kiaer, Forh. Vidensk.-Selsk. Kristiania 1892 (14): 4, 1892 (Pearson 1893), nom. inval. (ICN2018 Art. 38.1(a); no description).

= Metzgeria camerunensis Steph. Bull. Herb. Boissier 7(12): 945. 1899 (Stephani 1899), syn. with Metzgeria madagassa in So (2004). Lectotype (here designated, cf. So 2004 as ‘holotype’): ‘Cameroun, Prope Ekundu pagum, on trees, ca 300 m, P. Dusén 106, 29 Oct 1890, G 12824 (= G00045399, www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=141413&lang=en); isotype: G as M. hamata’.

Note: So's ‘holotype’ is too late to take as an inadvertent lectotypification. We here formally lectotypify the name with the same specimen as selected by So.

= Metzgeria limbatosetosa Steph. Wiss. Ergebn. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. (1907–1908), Bot. 2: 111. 1911 (Stephani 1911), syn. with Metzgeria madagassa in So (2004). Lectotype (here designated, cf. So 2004 as ‘holotype’): Rwanda, Rugege-Wald, Kiwu See, 1900 m, Mildbraed 844, 1907, G 001067 (= G00045402, www.villege.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=141418&lang=en).

Data availability statement

There are no additional data for this paper.

References

1.

Kuwahara, Y. 1984. Synopsis of section Biseria subg. Metzgeria Kuw. genus Metzgeria Raddi (Hepaticae). – Hikobia 9: 31–42. Google Scholar

2.

Pearson, W. H. 1893. Hepaticae madagascariensis – Forh. Vidensk. – Selsk. Kristiania 1892: 1–12. Google Scholar

3.

So, M. L. 2004. Metzgeria (Metzgeriaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Africa. – New Z. J. Bot. 42: 271–292. Google Scholar

4.

Stephani, F. 1895. Hepaticae africanae. – Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 299–321. Google Scholar

5.

Stephani, F. 1899. Species hepaticarum 1. – Bull. Herb. Boissier 7: 927–956. Google Scholar

6.

Stephani, F. 1911. Hepaticae. – In: Mildbraed, G. W. J. (ed.), Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908, Band II, Botanik, Lieferung 2. Klinkhart & Biermann, pp. 111–134. Google Scholar

Citation Download Citation

Lars Söderström and Anders Hagborg "Notes on Early Land Plants Today*. 85. Metzgeria warnstorffii, an earlier name for the African Metzgeria madagassa," Lindbergia 2023(1), (2 March 2023). https://doi.org/10.25227/linbg.24522

Accepted: 3 January 2023; Published: 2 March 2023

Access the abstract

JOURNAL ARTICLE
2 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER + SAVE TO MY LIBRARY