scholarly journals Lectotypification of the name Stereodon nemoralis Mitt. (Plagiotheciaceae), a basionym of Plagiothecium nemorale (Mitt.) A. Jaeger

PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Grzegorz J. Wolski ◽  
Anna Faltyn-Parzymska ◽  
Jarosław Proćków
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Type A ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
The Past

In 1859, William Mitten described Stereodon nemoralis (≡ Plagiothecium nemorale) based on the gathering of Sir J.D. Hooker from India. However, the protologue did not indicate any specific specimen or illustration. For the past 50 years, the original material (NY 913349) deposited at the NY Herbarium has been considered as the holotype. However, this assumption has since been found to be incorrect, because in the Herbarium of The Natural History Museum exists other original material of this species (BM 1030713), collected by Hooker. In addition, the specimen from NY Herbarium is in poor condition and its most important diagnostic characters are not visible. In contrast, the material from BM Herbarium is in very good condition, and therefore it is herein designated as the lectotype. Also, the paper describes the resolution of this type, a process complicated by changes that had occurred in the provisions of subsequent botanical Codes.

Typifications and taxonomic notes for Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium (Plantaginaceae) based on material from the Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (BP)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 331 (1) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIRK C. ALBACH ◽  
DÁNIEL PIFKÓ ◽  
ZOLTÁN BARINA
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Markers ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Important Species ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dry Steppe ◽  
Hungarian Natural History Museum

Veronica subgen. Pseudolysimachium is a group of 30 species ranging across northern Eurasia in various open habitats from dry steppe to swamps. It includes several horticulturally important species that have been crossed in the past. As such, it exemplifies a group with long taxonomic tradition, exemplified by more than 600 valid names, which also indicates its variability. In the process of identifying the evolutionary important units, molecular markers have started to help immensely. However, assigning names to identified significant groups of populations has been hindered by problems in typification. Here, we try to alleviate the problem for the taxa in southeastern Europe, which have been analyzed rigorously using AFLP fingerprints in the past, by lectotypifying 11 names and neotypifying four names, mostly based on specimens found in the Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest (BP). This allowed revising Veronica barrelieri with its three subspecies and synonyms.

Type designation of the name of the conifer Araâr-tree Tetraclinis articulata (Cupressaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 348 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
P. PABLO FERRER-GALLEGO ◽  
FERNANDO BOISSET
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Tetraclinis Articulata

The typification of the name Tetraclinis articulata (Cupressaceae) is discussed. Previous type designation is considered ineffective. Original material conserved in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at C is designated as the lectotype.

Critical revision of Stemonitis and Symphytocarpus (Myxomycetes) at the Natural History Museum London (BM)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 458 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-280
Author(s):  
G. MORENO ◽  
A. CASTILLO ◽  
H. THÜS
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Critical Revision

Light- and scanning electron microscopy are applied to re-assess diagnostic characters of type specimens and critical specimens of species in the genera Stemonitis and Symphytocarpus (Stemonitales, Myxomycetes) from the collections of the Natural History Museum London (BM). The results are used to discuss published data and the type status for specimens of Stemonitis ferruginea, S. flavogenita, S. herbatica, S. inconspicua, S. morganii, S. pallida, S. smithii, S. uvifera, S. virginiensis, S. webberi, Symphytocarpus amaurochaetoides, S. confluens, S. flaccidus and S. herbaticus. Due to severe shortcomings of the original description and the absence of preserved original material we regard S. axifera (Bull.) Macbride as a nomen ambiguum and propose to re-adopt the use of S. ferruginea as the valid name for the common taxon S. axifera auct. (non (Bull.) T.Macbr.). SEM characters support the treatment of Stemonitis smithii as a synonym of S. ferruginea. Stemonitis webberi instead is shown to be well separated from S. splendens by several independent characters. The importance of SEM characters for the correct identification of critical specimens of Stemonitis ferruginea, S.pallida and S. webberi is highlighted and accurate spore measurements based on SEM images are provided for all species.

Typification of the marine siphonous green algae Caulerpa prolifera (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Boisset ◽  
Pedro Pablo Ferrer Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Green Algae ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Original Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Botanical Museum ◽  
Caulerpa Prolifera

The typification of the marine siphonous green algae Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V. Lamouroux (≡ Fucus prolifer Forsskål) (Caulerpaceae), including f. obovata (J. Agardh) Weber-van Bosse and f. zosterifolia Børgesen, is discussed. Original material conserved in the Natural History Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen) at C (Herbarium Forsskålii) and in the Botanical Museum of Lund University at LD are designated as the corresponding lectotypes.

scholarly journals Identity and neotypification of Hieracium zanogae (Asteraceae), endemic to the Southern Carpathians

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 257 (2) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Szelag
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Original Material ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Hungarian Natural History Museum ◽  
Southern Carpathians

In a taxonomic revision of Hieracium sect. Cernua Uechtritz (1875: 215) in the Carpathians, Sudetes and Alps (Szeląg 2006a), I did not manage to resolve the taxonomic position of  H. zanogae Pax (1908: 98) described from the Retezat Mountains in the Southern Carpathians, Romania. I have been unable to trace any specimens of Pax’s original material in a number of European herbaria, including the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (BP) which hosts the Carpathian herbarium of Pax, and the Natural History Museum in Wrocław (WRSL) where Ferdinand Pax worked. Based on the description included in the protologue (Pax 1908), I supposed that H. zanogae could be conspecific with H. tubulare Nyárády in Zahn (1929: 144), the other endemic species to the Retezat Mountains.

scholarly journals The burrow morphology of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae): terminology and comparisons

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Baker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Mole Cricket ◽  
Mole Crickets ◽  
Burrow Morphology

Since the publication of Baker (2016) three additional burrow casts, unknown to the author, were located in the Natural History Museum, London (NHM) collection by George Beccaloni. These casts were provisionally identified as Gryllotalpa vineae. In order to establish whether this identification was correct a literature survey of the casts of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) was conducted. Through this process a standardised terminology for mole cricket burrows has been established. The application of eccentricity measurements to burrow structures has identified measurements that can potentially be used to discriminate those species for which suitably detailed burrow descriptions have been made available. It is demonstrated that the eccentricity of the restrictions on either side of the bulb, as well as the eccentricity of the horn opening, are useful diagnostic characters.

scholarly journals The life and works of Fortescue William Millett (1833–1915), foraminiferologist

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Hodgkinson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Poor Condition ◽  
Malay Archipelago

Abstract. The few obituaries that there are of Fortescue William Millett are rather cursory and incomplete. Now, 90 years later, a rather fuller picture of the man – hitherto, a rather enigmatic figure – and his foraminiferal work is presented, concentrating especially on his later years after his retirement to Cornwall. Millett published two substantial studies, on the foraminifera of the Malay Archipelago and the Pliocene St Erth beds of Cornwall, for which he is best remembered, but most of his other projects appear never to have been completed. His extensive collections and library, much of it in a poor condition, were rescued and conserved by Edward Heron-Allen after his death, and are now in The Natural History Museum, London.

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