Updated typification and taxonomic status of the South American pteridophytes described by Ignaz Goldmann (= “J. G.” Goldmann) in 1843, including a brief biography

Abstract We present updated type data and taxonomic status on the 13 South American pteridophytes described by Ignaz Goldmann in 1843 based on the plants collected by Franz Meyen during his circumnavigation of the world between 1830 and 1832. In addition, we discuss a species described by Meyen himself in 1834. Among the 14 names, we choose six lectotypes, present three lectotypes inadvertently chosen, five isolectotypes, one probable isolectotype, and report five names with missing types, which are very probably not extant. The types we found are deposited in B, BR, NY, PRC, and S. One of Goldmann's names, Lindsaea sectorifolia , was mislabeled; it did not come from Brazil. We also present new data on the life of Goldmann himself, and show that the spelling “J. G.” Goldmann, which has been used from the 1860s until the present, is an error.