Croton hildebrandtii Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 847. 1890

Berry, Paul E., Kainulainen, Kent & Ee, Benjamin W. van, 2017, A Nomenclator of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, and the Mascarene Islands, PhytoKeys 90, pp. 1-87 : 36

66. Croton hildebrandtii Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 847. 1890

Croton heterochrous Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 862. 1890, nom. illeg. non Croton heterochrous Müll.Arg. 1865.

Croton belintae Leandri, Cat. Pl. Madag., Euphorb.: 30. 1935, syn. nov. Type. Madagascar. Prov. Antsiranana: Vavatobé, Belinta, Feb 1880, J.M. Hildebrandt 3326 (lectotype, designated here: P [P00127506]!; isolectotypes: G [G00018184]!, G [G00018185]!, JE [JE00015890], JE [JE00015891]!, K [K001040370]!, M [M-0110366], P [P00127507]!, P [P00133155]!, P [P00133156]!).

Type.

Madagascar. Prov. Antsiranana: Pasandava-bai [Bay], Kisimani , Jun 1879, J.M. Hildebrandt 3013 (lectotype, designated here: G [G00075617]!; isolectotypes: G [G00075618]!, G [G00018186]!, JE [JE00000063]!, K [K000347497]!, M [M0110367]!), P [P00133157]!, P [P00133158]!, P [P00133159] !).

Habit and distribution.

Shrubs; northern and northwestern Madagascar (Antsiranana, Mahajanga).

Notes.

The type of Croton belintae differs from the typically lepidote plants of C. hildebrandtii only in the presence of prominent porrect rays emerging from the center of the lepidote scales, which gives the plant a more fuzzy-pubescent appearance. In all other characters, however, such as leaf shape, petiolar glands, and the small flowers with somewhat recurved pedicels, they are identical. We therefore treat C. belintae as a synonym of the earlier name C. hildebrandtii .