Gymnosporia rufa (Wallich) Hooker f. (1865: 17)

Bhat, Abhishek T., Prabhukumar, Konickal Mambetta & Rana, Tikam Singh, 2024, Lectotypification of four names in the genus Gymnosporia (Celastraceae), Phytotaxa 645 (3), pp. 286-293 : 288

Gymnosporia rufa (Wallich) Hooker f. (1865: 17)

≡ Celastrus rufus Wallich (in Roxburgh 1824: 397)

≡ Maytenus rufa (Wallich) H. Hara (1965: 327)

Lectotype (designated here):— NEPAL [as NEPALIA], 1821, Wallich Cat. no. 4309a ( K, K001038681 ) ( Fig. 2 ); isolectotypes: [ A, A00049675 , BM, BM000838984 , C, CAL, CAL0000066376–77 , 81, CGE, CGE00080099 , E, E 00301194– 96 , GH, GH02462084 , GH, GH02463721 , MICH, MICH-V-1104444 , NY, NY00337331 , OXF, OXF00140908–09 , P, P00499879 , S, S11-17212 , W, W0215374 ].

Notes: Celastrus rufa [ rufus ] is based on two gatherings, “ Common in the forests of the valley of Nipal [ Nepal] and “I have also found it at Tambakan [ Indonesia]” (Wallich in Roxburgh 1824). We traced a total of 20 Wallich collection of C. rufus from Nepal housed at A, BM, CAL, C, CGE, E, GH, K, MICH, NY, OXF, P, S and W that all regarded here as syntypes ( McNeill 2014). But our efforts to trace the Tambakan specimens were all in vain [perhaps Wallich might have observed the plant at Tambakan but might not have collected it. If he had collected, then he would have included that gathering in his catalogue]. The specimen at K (K001038681) and CAL (CAL0000066376) maintained with flowers, fruits, and the original field label in Wallich’s handwriting, of which the former specimen is selected here as lectotype.

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Celastrus rufus K001038681 ©RBG, Kew. Reproduced with permission. http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/ K001038681.