Flora of the Hawaiian Islands --Type Information

Charpentiera elliptica (Hillebr.) A. Heller , Minnesota Bot. Stud. 1: 820. 1897.

*Verification: W.L. Wagner.

Type Information
Basionym: Charpentiera obovata Gaudich. var. elliptica Hillebr., Fl. Hawaiian Isl. 375 1888.
Kaua`i, pl. 44 in Sinclair, 1885, Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands.
Lectotype Lectotypified in Wagner, et al.. Bishop Mus., Occas. Pap. 26: 107. 1986.

Note: Sohmer (1972) superfluously named Heller 2781 as neotype. Additional syntypes: Kauai (B, presumably destroyed); Maui (B, presumably destroyed, fragment BISH!)

*Verification: Wagner, W.L., D.R. Herbst, & S.H. Sohmer. 1986. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 26:102-122.

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Basionym: Charpentiera obovata Gaudich. var. elliptica Hillebr., Fl. Hawaiian Isl. 375 1888.
Kaua`i, above Waimea, Kaholuamanoa [Kaholuamanu]. 4000 ft. 30 August 1895. Heller 2781.
Neotype [BISH]. Isoneotype(s) [A, GH, NY, P, US!]. Neotypified in Sohmer. Brittonia 24: 294. 1972.

Note: Superfluous neotypification, as there is extant original material. See typification by Wagner et al., 1986.

*Verification: Wagner, W.L. & R.K. Shannon. 1999. Brittonia 51:422-438.

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