Edited by John McNeill, Scott A. Redhead & John H. Wiersema (2815) Proposal to conserve the name Bosea yervamora (Amaranthaceae) with a conserved type Javier Francisco-Ortega, 1,2 Kanchi N. Gandhi, 3 Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, 4 Alan Tye, 5 Alan R. Franck, 6 José A. Mejías, 7 Jonathan A. Flickinger 6,2 & Brett Jestrow 2 1 Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, U.S.A. 2 The Herbarium, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida 33156, U.S.A. 3 Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A. 4 Calle Guaidil 16, 38280 Tegueste, Tenerife, Spain 5 Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador 6 Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, U.S.A. 7 Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain Addresses for correspondence: Javier Francisco-Ortega, ortegaj@fiu.edu; Kanchi N. Gandhi, gandhi@oeb.harvard.edu DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12512 First published as part of this issue. See online for details. (2815) Bosea yervamora L., Sp. Pl.: 225. 1 Mai 1753 [Angiosp.: Amaranth.], nom. cons. prop. Typus: Spain, Canary Islands, Tenerife, Carretera de Tegueste a Bajamar, 28.548055 N, 16.354722 W, 18 Oct 2019, Santos- Guerra (ORT No. 47659; isotypi: BM barcode BM013848261, FTG barcode 00174597, GH barcode 00459189, LPA No. 39183, MA No. MA-01-00944610, ORT No. 47660, TFC No. 53475), typ. cons. prop. Linnaeus (Crit. Bot.: 77. 1737) coined the genus name “Bosea” to honor Caspar Bose (1645–1700), who owned a famous garden in Leipzig (“Bose Senator Lipsiensis”). Later Linnaeus (Hort. Cliff.: 84. 1738) spelled the name as “Bosia”, provided a description and referenced earlier works, viz., Plukenet (Almagestum: 42. 1696), Sloane (Cat. Pl. Jamaica: 135 [sub Tilia]. 1696, Voy. Jamaica 2: 19 [sub Tilia], t. 158, fig. 3. 1725), Ray (Hist. Pl. 3 (24: Dendrolo- giæ): 88 [sub Tilia]. 1704), Walther (Design. Pl.: 24 [sub Frutex], t. 10. 1735), and Thran (Index Pl. Horti Carolsruh.: 44. 1733). Subse- quently, Linnaeus (Gen. Pl., ed. 2: 102. 1742, Sp. Pl.: 225. 1753; Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 105. 1754) reverted to the original spelling, and it was validated as Bosea, monotypic when published in 1753 with B. yervamora L. as generitype. The epithet is a noun in apposition. The name B. yervamora L. is still in use to refer to the only species of Amaranthaceae endemic in the Canary Islands, where it is com- mon in thermophilous woodland. Bosea yervamora was one of the untypified names in the Lin- naean Plant Name Typification Project (Jarvis, Order Out of Chaos: 357. 2007), but its subsequent typification (Iamonico in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 70: 187–188. 2013) has been problematic. As the genus was monotypic, there was no diagnosis (nomen specificum legiti- mum) in his Species plantarum account (Linnaeus, l.c. 1753), but there was reference to his 1738 work, along with Sloane (l.c. 1696, 1725), Ray (l.c.), Walther (l.c.), and Royen (Fl. Leyd. Prodr.: 223 [sub Bosia]. 1740). Regarding the typification of the name Bosea yervamora, Lin- naeus (l.c. 1753) gave the locality as “Habitat in Canariis insulis”, but because he referred to Sloane’ s (l.c. 1696, 1725) accounts on Jamaican plants, Linnaeus must also have assumed that the species was present in the West Indies. Indeed, he had previously (l.c. 1738) cited its occurrence as “Crescit in insulis Canariis, aliisque Americae insulis” with reference to Plukenet (l.c. 1696). We believe that Linnaeus’ s confusion on the locality arose because Plukenet (l.c. 1696), who is considered the first to have described the Canarian plant (as Arbuscula baccifera Canariensis […] Yerva-mora Hispa- norum), mentioning only the Canary Islands as the locality, later (Almagesti Bot. Mant.: 21. 1700) placed both this taxon and a Jamaican-occurring species described by Sloane (l.c. 1696, 1725) under the same polynomial. Linnaeus (l.c. 1753) continued to follow Plukenet’ s second interpretation and treated the two species as a sin- gle taxon. Sloane’ s polynomial has been identified as the West Indian endemic Phyllanthus nutans Sw. (Phyllanthaceae), a species found in the Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica, being relatively common in Jamaica (Adams, Fl. Pl. Jamaica: 408. 1972; Proctor, Fl. Cayman Islands: 441–443, t. 37. 2012; Falcón Hidalgo & al. in Int. J. Pl. Sci. 181: 288, 293–294, 298, 302. 2020). Unfortunately, no material of either of these two species is found in the Hortus Cliffortianus herbarium (Jarvis, Dataset: Clifford Her- barium. 2016, https://doi.org/10.5519/0022031). Furthermore, Plu- kenet’ s polynomial does not refer to any of his illustrations to clarify the identity of this taxon; while his morphological description is for a species with “Syringae caeruleae foliis, purpurantibus venis”, which does not agree with the leaf morphology of either the Canary Island amaranth or P. nutans. Iamonico’ s (l.c.) lectotypification mentioned that “No specimens of original material were found in the Linnaean and Linnaean-linked herbaria.” He performed a thorough analysis on the material associated with the name and made it clear that none was suitable for typification, being not available to Linnaeus in or prior to 1753. After comparing the Sloane (l.c. 1725) and Walther (l.c.) illustrations mentioned in the protologue, Iamonico remarked that because the Sloane image is more complete “we are designating it as lectotype of this name”. The Sloane illustration seems to have been based on a single specimen in © 2021 International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 674 Version of Record Francisco-Ortega & al. • (2815) Conserve Bosea yervamora TAXON 70 (3) • June 2021: 674–675 PROPOSALS TO CONSERVE OR REJECT NAMES