Photinia dubia Lindl.

Idrees, Muhammad & Shaw, Julian M. H., 2022, Lectotypification of Photinia dubia Lindl. (Rosaceae), Adansonia (3) 44 (4), pp. 23-27 : 25-27

Photinia dubia Lindl. ( Fig. 1 ).

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13 (1): 104, t. 10 ( Lindley 1821).

Eriobotrya dubia (Lindl.) Decne. , in Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle 10: 145 ( Decaisne 1874). — Rhaphiolepis dubia (Lindl.) B.B. Liu & J. Wen , Frontiers in Plant Sciences 10 (1731): 10 ( Liu et al. 2020b) .

LECTOTYPE (designated here). — Nepal. “ Wallich (Lambert) ”, “ Mespilus an bengalensis Rb. E. Napalia , January 1818 ”, E. Gardner s.n. in Wallich (lecto-, BM [ BM013717909 ]! ; syn-, BM [ BM013717911 , BM013717912 ]!).

REMARKS

With the kind assistance of Herbarium staff at BM Lindley’s original material was located. This specimen bears flowers and may have provided the basis for the illustration of Photinia dubia in Lindley (1821), and consequently this sheet would make a suitable lectotype. Hence, following ICN Art. 9.3, 9.12 ( Turland et al. 2018), we here designate the original specimen deposited atBM013717909 as lectotype, superseding Vidal (1965), and Liu et al. (2020a) selection of “ Wallich 668.1” as provided by ICN Art. 9.19 ( Turland et al. 2018). The selected sheet is a complete and well-preserved specimen that displays morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.

Figures

FIG. 1. — Lectotype of Photinia dubia Lindl. (BM013717909).