Rhodostachys leiboldiana Mez
Status: Doubtful and Excluded
Publ: DC. Monogr. Phan. in De Candolle, C. (ed.). Monographiae Phanerogamarum 9: 338 (1896)
Taxonomic Notes:
- Rhodostachys leiboldiana Mez in Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 9: 338. 1896 [“leiboldianus”]. Holotype: Chile, without locality (“in Exp. Donau”), Leibold 2960 (W, destroyed) ≡ Ochagavia leiboldiana (Mez) L. B. Sm. & Looser in Rev. Univ. (Santiago) 18(8): 1078. 1934. Remarks.
– The type specimen deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum in Vienna (W) was destroyed in a fire shortly after World War II (Till 1994). No collecting data (coastal or Andean habitat) are given in the protologue, thus it remains doubtful from the description, whether Rhodostachys leiboldiana must be regarded conspecific with Ochagavia litoralis or Ochagavia andina. For this reason, we did not select a neotype. The information given about leaf size (length: ± 0.4 m, width: up to 8 mm) and indumentum of the abaxial leaf blade surface clearly points toward one of the above mentioned Ochagavia species." —See Zizka et al. 2002
