The German botanist, F. R. R. Schlechter, collected three species of Etlingera around 1907 in “Kaiser-Wilhelmsland”, now the northern part of Papua New Guinea. Based on these collections, Valeton described three new species in 1914 in Geanthus, but the types collected by Schlechter kept in the Berlin Herbarium were lost during the Second World War. Using a map published by Schlechter in 1911, it was possible to pin down where the types had been collected, and during fieldwork in November 2019 these species were recollected near their type localities. Two of the species had meanwhile been collected from several other places in Papua New Guinea. The current paper includes much improved descriptions and illustrations (ink drawings and a plate with colour photographs) of the three species. Lectotypes are designated for E. densiuscula and E. grandiflora and a neotype is designated for E. vestita.

Citation: Poulsen A. D., Pomoso P. & Magun T. 2022: Three species of Etlingera (Zingiberaceae) recollected in the footsteps of Rudolf Schlechter in Papua New Guinea. – Willdenowia 52: 153–165.

Version of record first published online on 23 June 2022 ahead of inclusion in August 2022 issue.

Campanula dersimensis Fırat & Yıldırım, a new species endemic to the E Anatolian region of Turkey, is described and illustrated. It is currently known from two localities in Tunceli province (Dersim). Campanula dersimensis shows similarities to C. quercetorum Hub.-Mor. & C. Simon and C. yildirimlii Kit Tan & Sorger. A close relationship of the three taxa is also supported by phylogenetic analyses based on the nuclear-encoded ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. Diagnostic morphological characters are discussed and compared with those of closely related taxa. Campanula dersimensis is easily distinguished from related species, especially by its retrorsely hairy stem and leaf surface, to 1 mm long calyx appendages and glabrous and light greenish yellow to yellowish white corollas.

Citation: Fırat M., Özüdoğru B. & Yıldırım H. 2022: A new bellflower, Campanula dersimensis (Campanulaceae), from E Anatolia, Turkey. – Willdenowia 52: 167–177.

Version of record first published online on 29 June 2022 ahead of inclusion in August 2022 issue.

Selaginella (Selaginellales, Selaginellaceae) is the most speciose genus of lycophytes and, with approximately 750 recognized present-day species, also one of the largest genera of vascular plants. However, the evolutionary history of this species richness remains largely unresolved. Recent research suggests that Selaginella was diverse already in the mid-Cretaceous and shows that S. subg. Stachygynandrum dates back at least to the incipient Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution some 100 million years ago. Here, we describe 20 new fossil-species of Selaginella based on fertile shoots and spores preserved in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar and emend the previously described S. cretacea. Ten of the species (S. ciliifera, S. cretacea, S. grimaldii, S. heterosporangiata, S. longifimbriata, S. minutissima, S. ohlhoffiorum, S. patrickmuelleri, S. villosa, S. wangxinii) represent S. subg. Stachygynandrum because they possess anisophyllous strobili. The other eleven species have isophyllous strobili. Two of them (S. isophylla, S. wunderlichiana) are tentatively assigned to S. subg. Ericetorum, whereas the others (S. amplexicaulis, S. aurita, S. heinrichsii, S. konijnenburgiae, S. obscura, S. ovoidea, S. pellucida, S. tomescui, S. wangboi) cannot be placed into any fossil or extant subgenus. The fossils described in this study nearly duplicate the documented record of free-sporing plants from Kachin amber. The abundance and diversity of cryptogams, along with the absence of xerophytes among the taxa, is suggestive of constantly high humidity in the understory of the source forests of this amber.

Citation: Schmidt A. R., Korall P., Krings M., Weststrand S., Bergschneider L., Sadowski E.-M., Bechteler J., Rikkinen J. & Regalado L. 2022: Selaginella in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. – Willdenowia 52: 179–245.

Version of record first published online on 22 September 2022 ahead of inclusion in August 2022 issue.

Fridericia is a large genus of neotropical lianas with a complicated taxonomy. The genus is monophyletic and well supported by molecular characters, but lacks distinctive morphological synapomorphies, complicating its recognition. Species of Fridericia are distributed among six well-supported clades. As part of a series of taxonomic revisions of each clade of Fridericia, we present a taxonomic revision of the “Neomacfadya” clade. This group is broadly distributed through the Neotropics and includes species with glandular fruits and long-tubular calyces that are usually laterally split. We recognize 11 species for which we provide an identification key, typifications, morphological descriptions, illustrations, phenology, maps, comments on distribution and habitats, as well as suggest the conservation status for all species. We lectotypify six names (Arrabidaea ateramnantha, A. craterophora subvar. glabrescens, A. craterophora subvar. velutina, Bignonia hispida, Scobinaria amethystina and S. japurensis). We correct the typification of A. lenticellosa Bureau & K. Schum. and B. arthrerion, provide a second-step lectotypification for B. pearcei and a neotypification for Paragonia schumanniana. We also correct information associated with the type of A. oligantha and synonymize this name in F. japurensis. We further reject A. craterophora var. obtusifolia and exclude one name previously treated in Fridericia (Tecoma moritziana).

Citation: Kaehler M. & Lohmann L. G. 2022: Taxonomic revisions in Fridericia (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae) II: the “Neomacfadya” clade. – Willdenowia 52: 247–271.

Version of record first published online on 22 September 2022 ahead of inclusion in August 2022 issue.

This is the fifteenth of a series of miscellaneous contributions, by various authors, where hitherto unpublished data relevant to both the Med-Checklist and the Euro+Med (or Sisyphus) projects are presented. This instalment deals with the families Amaranthaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Cactaceae, Campanulaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Compositae, Cyperaceae, Dipsacaceae, Leguminosae, Lentibulariaceae, Molluginaceae, Montiaceae, Onagraceae, Orobanchaceae, Pinaceae, Plantaginaceae, Polygalaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Umbelliferae and Violaceae. It includes new country and area records and taxonomic and distributional considerations for taxa in Acacia, Amaranthus, Bupleurum, Campanula, Carex, Claytonia, Dysphania, Epilobium, Erigeron, Galium, Gelasia, Hieracium, Lathyrus, Lomelosia, Lonicera, Mollugo, Nothoscordum, Opuntia, Orobanche, Picea, Plantago, Polycarpon, Polygala, Rubus, Scorzoneroides, Utricularia, Veronica, Vicia and Viola, and a correction to a previous notula for Trifolium pachycalyx in Greece.

Citation

For the whole article: Raab-Straube E. von & Raus Th. (ed.) 2022: Euro+Med-Checklist Notulae, 15. – Willdenowia 52: 273–299. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52205

For a single contribution (example): Bartolucci F. & Galasso G. 2022: Vicia lens subsp. lamottei (Czefr.) H. Schaef. & al. – Pp. 284–285 in: Raab-Straube E. von & Raus Th. (ed.), Euro+Med-Checklist Notulae, 15. – Willdenowia 52: 273–299. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52205

Version of record first published online on 30 September 2022 ahead of inclusion in August 2022 issue.