Rediscovery of Chamisso's type specimens of Hawaiian Psychotria (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae) in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum, Vienna.

ABSTRACT: Between 1815 and 1818, Count Nikolai Romanzoff funded an expedition of the Russian brig Rurik. Besides their primary goal to discover the Northeast Passage, their aim was to collect scientific specimens, for which the botanist Adelbert von Chamisso and the entomologist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz were commissioned. On the Hawaiian Islands, they collected two unknown endemic species that Chamisso and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal later described as Coffeakaduana and C.mariniana, both now assigned to the large and complex genus Psychotria (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae). The private herbarium of Chamisso is now preserved at the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg (LE). In the late 1930s, their type collections of Psychotriakaduana and

SUBMITTER: Berger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6308219 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature