Notes on Early Land Plants Today 86. Trichocolea wattsiana, an earlier name for Trichocolea hatcheri and some technical lectotypifications

Abstract

Katagiri (2018) synonymized Trichocolea minutifolia and Trichocolea wattsiana under the name Trichocolea hatcheri E.A.Hodgs. overlooking the fact that Trichocolea hatcheri is a younger name. Trichocolea minutifolia and Trichocolea wattsiana were both published in the same paper (Stephani and Watts 1914) and one of them should have been selected. Trichocolea wattsiana has richer type material, so we here select that as the name to be used for this species. For two of the names Katagiri (2018) cited the type as “holotype” although the describing author did not select a holotype and there exists type material in more than one herbarium. As it is after the 1 January 2001, it is too late for the “holotype” of Katagiri (2018) to be corrected to lectotype (cf. ICN Art. 7.10, Turland et al. 2018). Thus, we here correct this and formally designate the same specimens as new lectotypes.