Lecanopteris lomarioides (=sarcopus) - South Sulawesi

[Andreas Wistuba]

Lecanopteris lomarioides (=sarcopus) - South Sulawesi

 

[Derrick]

When I wrote my original notes regarding Lecanopteris species, I used L. lomarioides rather than the L. sarcopus used by the illustrious Gay, Hennipman, Huxley and Parrott (1994.)  See quotes below.  However, I now wonder if they were correct.  The very first use of lomarioides (see Drynaria lomarioides below) appears to have been a nomen nudum (a naked name, one without a scientific description) which raises the question. Does later use of that specific name also become invalid?  If so, then L. sarcopus is the correct name. Yet I note that the fern checklist accepts L. lomarioides. https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/

Here is the latest update on what I have been able to track down.  These ancient records are being scanned at an exponential rate, so many more records should become available in only a few years.          http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

 

Lecanopteris lomarioides (Kunze ex Mett.) Copel. (Edwin Bingham Copeland) published in University of California Publications in Botany vol.16, p123, (1929) Not yet scanned.

   Basionym according to Tropicos, Polypodium lomarioides Kunze ex Mett. (Gustav Kunze ex Georg Heinrich Mettenius) published in Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 2, 102, t.2, 18/9 (1856) (Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges.). Not yet scanned. See Tropicos page. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50250493. Note that this date is 1856 but there is an earlier invalid use of the specific epithet as follows in bold type.

  Synonyms. Phymatodes lomarioides Moore (Thomas Moore) in Index filicum lxxviii (78.) (1857) (Index Fil.) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/115962#page/80/mode/1up on a basionym of Drynaria lomarioides J. Sm. (John Smith) in Sir William Jackson Hooker’s Journal of Botany 3, Enumeration of Philippine Island Ferns, p397, (1841).

(Jour. Bot III). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2918052#page/414/mode/1up

However, this is only a name mentioned in a key with NO type description. Furthermore, there is no record (correctly) of Drynaria lomarioides in the Tropicos database. Also, Smith in Historia filicum: an exposition of the nature, number and organography of ferns, p106 (1875.) Merely mentions that he had previously named Drynaria lomarioides.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19530092#page/132/mode/1up.

Pleopeltis lomarioides (J. Sm) Moore in Bulletin de l'Institut botanique de Buitenzorg p24 (1898.)

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5038715#page/36/mode/1up.

Pleopeltis lomarioides Kunze ex Mett, was also published in Malayan ferns. Handbook to the determination of the ferns of The Malayan Islands (incl. those of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and New Guinea by Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh p623 (1908). Also based on the naked name Drynaria lomarioides J. Sm. (1841).

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/111916#page/669/mode/1up.

 

 

Lecanopteris sarcopus ((Teysm. & Binnend.) Copel. (Edwin Bingham Copeland) also in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16, p123, (1929).

  This name was used by Gay (1993b) & Gay et al. (1994) noting that Drynaria lomarioides J.Sm. (see above) was correctly, as far as I can ascertain nom nud.  Basionym Polypodium sarcopus, Johannes Elias Teijsmann & Simon Binnendijk in Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië 29, p241, (1867.) Here spelt Polypodium sarcopum Teysmann & Binnendyk with a brief Latin description on a “text” page immediately prior to a third p241, so scroll up from the end of the book.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48369#page/775/mode/1up.

I am unable to access the 1929 U. C. Bot. publication to check this inconsistency.  However, it seems the currently popular use of L. lomarioides may be incorrect.

Other Synonyms.

Pleopeltis lomarioides (Kunze ex Mett.) Copel. in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16: 123 (1929).

Myrmecopteris lomarioides (Kunze ex Mett.) Pic. Ser. (Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli) published in Webbia 31, (1) p240, 1977. Also according to Gay et al (1994) Myrmecopteris sarcopus (Teysm. & Binnend.) Pic. Ser. in Webbia 31: 240 (1977). Type: Teijsmann and de Vries 75, Manado, Minahassa, (Now correctly Minahasa) Sulawesi (iso in BM, K, L).  Note the duplication in Webbia.

Pleopeltis sarcopus (Teysm. & Binnend.) Alderwerelt in Bulletin du Département de l’Agriculture aux Indes Neerl. 27, p3, (1909.)

Myrmecophila sarcopus (Teysm. & Binnend.) Ching, in Sunyatsenia 5 (4) p259 (1940). This generic name was already in use for an ant-house orchid genus.

Polypodium sauvinierei Baker, Ann. Bot. (1891), 480. Type: De la Sauviniere 382, "route de Sukur a Sawan", Minahassa, Sulawesi (K).

[Derrick]

Does not anyone have thoughts on this?

[Derrick]

Attention German language speakers.  Can anyone help?

I am trying to find if there was a type description published for Polypodium lomarioides Gustav Kunze ex Georg Heinrich Mettenius in Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 2, page102, (1856.)  The following site may have a digital copy.

http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=12944&PHPSESSID=ng6l2mc0e2p90v4u9b4amg0a1k6efhnh

[Derrick]

I have found one basionym with a description. Polypodium sarcopus, Johannes Elias Teijsmann & Simon Binnendijk in Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië 29, p241, (1867.) Actually here it is spelt Polypodium sarcopum Teysmann & Binnendyk with a brief Latin description on a “text” page immediately prior to a third and last p241, so scroll up from the end of the book. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/.../48369.../775/mode/1up.

[Derrick]

Dr Michael Hassler the compiler of the fern database (https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/) has prepared the following publication list using botanical abbreviations regarding the taxon Lecanopteris sarcopus/lomarioides and its synonyms.  There are possibly one or more publications that we are not aware of that will change this list.  Can anyone provide more information to settle the question of sarcopus or lomarioides.

= Lecanopteris lomarioides (Kze. ex Mett.) Copel. (1929 )÷ Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16: 123 (1929) [should read (J. Sm.), not (Kze. ex Mett.)]

= Drynaria lomarioides J. Sm. 1841 ÷ J. Bot. 3: 397 (1841), nomen nudum.

= Myrmecophila sarcopus (Teijsm. & Binn.) Ching • 1940 ÷ Sunyatsenia 5: 259 (1940).

= Myrmecopteris lomarioides (Kze ex Mett.) Pichi-Serm. 1977 ÷ Webbia 31(1): 240 (1977) [should read (J. Sm.), not (Kze. ex Mett.).

= Myrmecopteris sarcopus (Teijsm. & Binn.) Pichi-Serm. 1977 ÷ Webbia 31(1): 240 (1977).

= Pleopeltis lomarioides (Kze. ex Mett.) Moore • 1857 ÷ Ind. Fil. 78 (1857) [should read (J. Sm.), not (Kze. ex Mett.).

= Pleopeltis sarcopus (Teijsm. & Binn.) Alderw. • 1909 ÷ Bull. Dépt. agric. Ind. néerl. 27: 3 (1909).

= Pleopeltis sauvinieri (Bak.) Alderw. • 1909 ÷ Bull. Dépt. agric. Ind. néerl. 27: 10 (1909) (sauvinieri).

= Polypodium lomarioides (J. Sm.) Kze. ex Mett. • 1857 ÷ Pol. 102,n. 192, t. 2, f. 18-19 (1857), nom. inval., basionym nomen nud.

= Polypodium myrmecophilum Christ • 1894 ÷ Verh. Naturf. Ges.> Basel 11: 24 (1894).

= Polypodium sarcopum Teijsm. & Binn. • 1867 ÷ Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 29. 241 (1867).

= Polypodium sarcopus (Teijsm. & Binn.) de Vriese & Teijsm. (1874)÷ Bak., Syn. 514 (1874)

= Polypodium sauvinieri Bak. • 1891 ÷ Ann. Bot. 5: 480 (1891)

[Derrick]

I have also updated and I hope clarified my original post above.

[Aurélien]

Hi,

 

Dr Hassler seems to have now a precise position about this species:

 

"L. lomarioides is based on a nomen nudum by J. Sm., therefore the name L. sarcopus needs to be used"

 

https://worldplants.webarchiv.kit.edu/ferns/

[Derrick]

This confirms my assessment.  The communications between the early botanists was very difficult especially internationally; therefore, I am always concerned there is something that I do not know that I do not know.