Euphorbia milii Des Moul. var. milii

Haevermans, Thomas, Rouhan, Germinal, Hetterscheid, Wilbert, Teissier, Marc, Belarbi, Karim, Aubriot, Xavier & Labat, Jean-Noël, 2009, Chaos revisited: nomenclature and typification of the Malagasy endemic Euphorbia subgenus Lacanthis (Raf.) M. G. Gilbert, Adansonia (3) 31 (2), pp. 279-299 : 288

70. Euphorbia milii Des Moul. var. milii

Bulletin de l’Histoire naturelle de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux 1: 27, pl. 1 (1826). — Type: Des Moulins, Bulletin de l’Histoire naturelle de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux 1: t. 1 (1826) (holo-,!) .

REMARK

The original wild locality in Madagascar remains unknown. Newton (1994) designated improperly a lectotype ( McNeill et al. 2006: Art. 9.1) which is in fact the holotype: “the plate in the protologue with drawings of the plant”.

We consider this name to apply to a distinct species, thus called Euphorbia milii Des Moul.