Triplaris arnottiana Meisn. 1856

Triplaris arnottiana Meisn. (1856: 176) Type (designated here):—[ECUADOR]. Ad flum. Guayaquil (at the river Guayaquil), [1822] (fr), Jameson s.n. (lectotype: K [K 585001, digital image!], isolectotype: NY 324209 [digital imag!]). Notes:— Meisner referenced a collection “Ad flum. Guayaquil (Jameson!)” and later “(v.s. in h. Arnott.)”. Brandbyge (1986) located a single Jameson s.n. collection at K that matches the protologue and was a part of Arnott’s herbarium. While this appears to be the specimen referenced by Meisner, because Meisner also referenced the entire collection, we cannot be certain that this was the only specimen he considered while writing his description.As a result, this specimen is considered a lectotype not the holotype (Art. 9.1 of ICBN). A duplicate of this specimen is located at NY. Both the lectotype and the isolectotype are only fruit collections. The NY specimen comes with metadata indicating that it was collected in 1822. This date is not written on the sheet itself or given in the protologue.