External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77315528-1
- Publication
- Phytotaxa
- Collation
- 585(4): 290
- Date of Publication
- 7 Mar 2023
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Lecythidaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- M.Monsalve 214
- Locality
- Valle del Cauca: Bajo Calima; Consesión Pulpapel/Buenaventura, c. 100 m
- Collection Date
- 9 Aug 1984
- Type Herbaria
- holotype CUVC CUVC-19929
isotype NY NY-02152729 - Latitude
- 3° 55' N
- Longitude
- 77° W
- Distribution Of Types
- Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.585.4.5 Etymology: the specific epithet honours Phillip Silverstone-Sopkin (1939–2018), who studied the taxonomy of Amaryllidaceae and was an enthusiastic researcher of the Colombian flora. He was the former Director of the CUVC herbarium at the Universidad del Valle in the city of Cali, Colombia.