Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name with Basionym (New Combination) Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 3rd, C, 258

Authors:

Bartram, William

Published In: Travels Through North and South Carolina 468. 1791. (Travels Carolina)
Annotation: The only description provided at the place of mention of this name is in a discussion of Franklinia alatamaha: "The other new, singular and beautiful shrub*, now here in full bloom, I never saw grow but at two other places in all my travels, and there very sparingly, except in East Florida, in the neighbourhood of the sea-coast. – *I gave it the name of Bignonia bracteata extempore." Bartram's names were analyzed by Merrill (Bartonia 23: 10-35, 1945), who found Bartram's description of Bignonia bracteata basically inadequate as a valid diagnosis. However, Merrill also noted (pp. 23-24) that Bartram's name Bignonia bracteata was linked in that work to a detailed description on p. 16 that is clearly the same plant and adequate to diagnose this species. The description and name are not explictly cross-referenced but Merrill was confident that they apply to the same species. Merrill noted that Bartram also used the name "Bartramia bracteata" in this work for apparently this same species (p. 18), without clarification of the genus to whic hit belonged, and Merrill considered this a nom. nud. It may be that this name in Bartramia can be shown to be Bartram's earlier name for this species, but Merrill did not attempt to do that and the genus name Bartramia was first validly published in 1753 for Malvaceae, so clearly not for this plant, and this name has been restricted by conservation today to a moss genus thus the first legitimate name Bartram published for this species is Bignonia bracteata. A similar conclusion was reached by Delprete, Pl. Syst. Evol. 201: 248, 1996.

Basionym:

Bartramia bracteata W. Bartram 

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
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• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Asteranae Takht.
• order:  Lamiales Bromhead
• family:  !!Bignoniaceae Juss.
• genus:  !!Bignonia L.

Other names with  Bartramia bracteata W. Bartram  as basionym:

Pinckneya bracteata (W. Bartram) Raf.

Projects: Rubiaceae , VPA

Keywords: FNA, VPA, KEW
Attribution: The name data was provided by WCSP, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/).