[Taxacom] Zinnemann ? Plant collector in the West Indies

[Michael A. Ivie]

If the type is from the West Indies, note that what are now the US 
Virgin Islands were then the Danish West Indies.  There were a lot of 
specimens sent from this Danish colony to scientists in Copenhagen in 
the late 1700's.  There are about 200 insects named from there by 
Fabricius.  Many of these specimens have been incorrectly reported to be 
from South America, apparently once used as we would today say Neotropical.

Mike Ivie

Robert Mill wrote:
> Dear Guido
>
> When I read the label on the photograph of the (presumed lectotype -
> there are two syntypes at C) of Piper hernandifolium I interpreted the
> name as Hornemann and I have been able to confirm this by checking the
> database of types in the Copenhagen Herbarium, which states that the
> specimen was given to Vahl by Hornemann ("ded. Hornemann"). This is
> presumably Jens Wilken Hornemann (1770-1841) who was a contemporary and
> colleague of Martin Vahl.
>
> http://botanik.snm.ku.dk/english/Samlinger/Herbarier/ is the
> English-language website home page of the C herbarium,
> http://130.225.211.158/typedatabase/search.htm is the search page for
> its database of types.
>
> However, although Hornemann was the donor of the specimen, that is not
> necessarily the same as being its COLLECTOR. He is not listed in Index
> Herbariorum as having collected in South America - it only lists
> Denmark, Greenland, Lapland and Norway. Someone more experienced than I
> would have to assist you in finding out who the actual collector might
> have been, if it wasn't Hornemann. Hornemann might have been given the
> specimen by a third person who actually collected it.
>
> Best wishes, Robert
>
> Dr Robert Mill
> Gymnosperm Systematist
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Guido Mathieu
> Sent: 04 September 2009 10:09
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] Zinnemann ? Plant collector in the West Indies
>
> The type of Peperomia hernandiifolia (Vahl) A.Dietr. (basionym Piper
> hernandiifolium Vahl) is usually cited with an 'anonymous' collector.
> However, apparently the oldest label on the holotype sheet (see TRGP at
> http://www.peperomia.net/repertory.asp) mentions a name that reads like
> 'Zinneman' or something close. Is anybody familiar with a plant
> collector
> with that name in the West Indies at the end of the 18th century (Vahl
> published his species in 1804)?
>
>  
>
> Guido Mathieu,
>
> Ghent University
>
> www.peperomia.net
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