- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:208528-2
- Publication
- Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina
- Collation
- 92: 104, fig. 6
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Portulacaceae
Type Information
- Distribution Of Types
- Paraguay (Southern South America, Southern America)
Remarks
Eponymy: Spegazzini mentioned ‘Species ad memoriam Filiae mihi dilectissimae, nuper morbo acérrimo raptae, dicata’. He did not mention his daughter’s name; however, the species name Portulaca amilis honours Spegazzini’s first-born daughter Amile’ (pers. Comm. from Spegazzini’s grand-daughter Etile Spegazzini to Silvia Leuenberge). According Werner Greuter (B), Amile was ‘christened by a phantasy name by analogy to etylic chemical compounds (as all his 11 kids, it appears). The name is deliberately in (phonetically transcribed) Greek form as Amili, with the final -i standing for Greek -η (eta). The Greek genitive termination would thus be -ης, transcribed to Latin script as -is. The epithet amilis is, therefore, correctly formed [in third declension]. A parallel for Spegazzini’s botanical daughter Etile is Acacia etilis.’ [Since Spegazzini did not mention whether he derived the epithet amilis from Amile or Amili, Shenzhen Code Art. 60.9(2) does not apply here]