Matelea zarucchii Morillo
, Mem. Fund. La Salle Ci. Nat. 81(190): 76 (2023).
External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77319034-1
- Publication
- Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales
- Collation
- 81(190): 76
- Date of Publication
- 19 Apr 2023
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Asclepiadaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- J. Zarucchi, R. E. Schultes y J. McElroy 1130
- Locality
- Depto. del Vaupés: Mitú and vicinity, along lower río Kubiyú
- Collection Date
- 31 Mar 1975
- Type Herbaria
- holotype GH
isotype COL - Distribution Of Types
- Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
Etymology: named in recognition of James Zarucchi (1952 - 2019), a leading researcher at the Missouri Botanical Garden, who collected the type specimen.