Quesnelia blanda (Schott ex Beer) Mez
Status: nom.illeg. (superfluous name, icn article 52.1)
Publ: Bromeliaceae (part 2) in Martius, C.F.P. von, Flora Brasiliensis 3(3): 383 (1892)
Type: Schott s n (holotype, W, lost), cultivated, origin unknown. Typified by original description and on-authority of Mez.
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Taxonomic Change:
- Beer (1857) when describing Anoplophytum strobilanthum, he wrote brief notes about the possible identity of a herbarium material collected by Schott, under the name Bromelia blanda. Expressing his doubts regarding this material to be a synonym of Anoplophytum strobilanthum, this author refrained from taking a position for the plant collected by Schott. As no description or print was supplied for Bromelia blanda, this is therefore a name published invalidly, according to International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
The taxon described by Mez (1892) should therefore have been correctly cited as Quesnelia blanda Schott ex Mez. However, still according to the established rules for International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Greuter et al., 1994) this name is illegitimate, because in his original work, Mez included the holotype (Wawra II-273) under the name previously validly published as Quesnelia strobilispica Wawra. —See Vieira 2006 p. 55
