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The nomenclature of the Catostemma clade (Malvaceae/Bombacoideae/Adansonieae)

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Aguiaria, Catostemma, and Scleronema (Malvaceae) are restricted to Amazonia, and comprise 20 accepted (and one uncertain) species that are typically large trees with significant economic value. No recent studies or taxonomic reviews of these three genera exist, and our preliminary evaluation indicated that many names need to be lectotypified. We present here a detailed review of all the names related to these three genera, with comments, corrected names, lectotypification of 10 names, and epitypification for three names. This article provides a basis for future systematic and evolutionary studies of both the Catostemma clade and of the tribe Adansonieae, in which that clade is embedded.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the curators and staff of F, IAN, INPA, MO, NY, UB, UFMT, VEN, and WIS for providing important information and/or images of specimens; Fábio A. Silva for the images and information about the specimens from MG; Josimar Külkamp for the images of specimens from NY and US; the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, for consent to reproduce images here (Figs. 2, 7-11; Figs. 1B, 3-5, and 12; and Fig. 6, respectively).

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We also are grateful to FAPERJ (No. #E-26/201.036/2019), Diversity Inventory Group (Walter Kuhlmann Award), IdeaWild [No. 501c(3)], and IAPT (Research Grant Award) for financial support to the first author, and to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil, for the productivity grant for the third author (No. 304576/2018–2).

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  1. Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 22.460-030, Brazil

    Carlos Daniel Miranda Ferreira, Massimo Giuseppe Bovini & José Fernando A. Baumgratz

  2. WIS Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    William Surprison Alverson

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CDMF conceived the study and wrote the manuscript with the help of WSA, MGB, and JFAB. All authors contributed to the nomenclatural discussions and the search for specimens and literature.—ORCID: CDMF, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6583-8750; WSA, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-0386; MGB, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4082-7817; JFAB, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3509-293X.

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Ferreira, C.D.M., Alverson, W.S., Bovini, M.G. et al. The nomenclature of the Catostemma clade (Malvaceae/Bombacoideae/Adansonieae). Brittonia 75, 113–132 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-023-09742-2

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