Solanum debilissimum Merr

53. Solanum debilissimum Merr. (Solanaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 265. 1923. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Wuzhishan, Wuzhi Shan, 11 May 1922, F. A. McClure 2979 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 9532) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00077823 image!). Merrill (1923) validly published the name Solanum debilissimum Merr. with only one gathering, McClure 9532, cited in the protologue. However, the collecting number on the label of the syntype specimen exists in A is 2979, while its herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 9523.Therefore, the erroneous collecting number is to be corrected.
Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 271-282 in Phytotaxa 598 (4) on page 279, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.598.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7983799
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