Taxonomie : D'après Molino
et al. (Adansonia, 44(26):
437. 13/12/2022): "Following Planchon & Triana (1860b), Marinho et al. (2016) distinguished
Tovomita choisyana from
T. longifolia (called
T. richardiana
by the former authors); yet their analysis demonstrates that the two
taxa do not differ in all the distinguishing characters proposed by
Planchon & Triana: number of petals, leaf morphology and inflorescence
structure. Marinho et al. (2016) placed emphasis on differences
in stamen length and shape, and in habitat preference: the
stamens and staminodes of
T. longifolia (according to these authors)
were only 3-4 mm long compared to 8-10 mm in
T. choisyana.
Furthermore, they considered that
T. choisyana was “associated
with watercourses”. These differences do not hold: Examination of
Leblond 34 (P05061606, annotated by Marinho as “isolectotype”
of
T. longifolia) shows that some staminodes are 6 mm, conversely,
several stamens of the isotype of
T. choisyana at G-DC (Unknown
coll. s.n., G00210645) are less than 7 mm. Further, there is no information
on the specimens identified as
T. choisyana to indicate that
they were collected in riparian, flooded, or swampy environments.
We agree with Marinho et al. (2016) that
T. excelsa Andrade-Lima &
G.Mariz and
T. bahiensis Engl. are conspecific with
T. choisyana,
and we therefore transfer them into synonymy under
T. longifolia.
The type of
T. melinonii Vesque (Mélinon s.n. [holotype: P[P00093864,
isotype: P00093865]) also perfectly fits in
T. longifolia."
