Goniothalamus carolinensis Kaneh.

Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 45: 279 (Kanehira 1931). – Type: Palau, Gaspan, Main Island, in forest near the sea, 21 Jul. 1929, R. Kanehira 477 (hololecto-, designated here: FU, Fig. 11; isolecto-: NY00025931).

Regional distribution

Palau.

Notes

Kanehira cited two specimens in the protologue of this species; his numbers 477 and 531, both collected in Palau. Images of the specimens in the Herbarium of Kyushu University (FU) show that either the original field labels or the Flora of the Caroline Islands labels have got transposed between the sheets (477 on the field label is mounted with 531 on the FCI label and vice versa). In the lectotype designation above it is the number on the field label that is followed. An annotation of 477 in red indelible pencil on the paper wrapping the material in the packet on the lectotype sheet seems to indicate that it is the Flora of the Caroline Islands labels that are in error. This means that the specimen in US with 477 on a FCI label is probably not an isolectotype.