Geissois, Fortune Hopkins, 2006

Fortune Hopkins, Helen C., 2006, Nomenclature and typification in Geissois (Cunoniaceae) in the South-West Pacific, Adansonia (3) 28 (2), pp. 311-327 : 317

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5187044

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7D34B806-E262-4457-BDF5-1925FFE5513B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F87F6-FFC8-A14E-FCB6-FD1BFF2FFEBF

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scientific name

Geissois
status

 

6. Geissois magnifica Baker View in CoL f.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 45: 300 (1921) . — Type (as given in protologue): “Cap Bocage, [...] 1378”. — Holotype: Cap Bocage, scrub and shrubby forest, serpentine, 6.VII.1914, Compton 1378 (BM! barcode no. 000528704 [fl.]).

Geissois racemosa sensu Lindl. View in CoL , Journal of the Horticultural Society of London 6: 272 (1851); Lindley & Paxton, Paxton’s Flower Garden 2: 146 (1851-1852); non Labill. (1825).

Remarks

The earliest references in print to this species (Lindley 1851; Lindley & Paxton 1851 -1852) placed it under Geissois racemosa , the only named species at that time. They described a magnificent stove house plant introduced into cultivation as an ornamental by Moore, which was a small tree, native to bare, exposed places on the east coast of New Caledonia, with racemes 8-12 inches long and large, glaucous, amplexicaul stipules. The morphology and habitat both suggest G. magnifica rather than G. racemosa .

Moore was director of the botanical garden at Sydney and visited New Zealand, Vanuatu and New Caledonia in 1850 on the British naval vessel Havannah ( McKee 1966). According to Guillaumin (1911a), he was responsible for the introduction of a number of species into cultivation. A sheet at K labelled “ Geissois sp.n., New Hebrides, Lindley 1852” consists of two racemes of the unusually large flowers of G. magnifica . It almost certainly did not come from Vanuatu but may have been sent to Lindley by Moore or collected by Lindley from one of the stove house plants referred to above.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Oxalidales

Family

Cunoniaceae

Loc

Geissois

Fortune Hopkins, Helen C. 2006
2006
Loc

Geissois racemosa sensu

Lindl. 1851: 272
1851
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