Rubus tsangii Merr.

Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, Phytotaxa 613 (3), pp. 261-270 : 268

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8356755
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03958796-FF96-FFC9-FF49-CA8AFC89E50B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rubus tsangii Merr.
status

Treatment

49. Rubus tsangii Merr. View in CoL View at ENA

(Rosaceae) in Lingnan Sci. J. 13(1): 28. 1934. TYPE:— CHINA. Guangdong: Zengcheng, Nankun Shan, 15 April 1932, W. T. Tsang 20246 (holotype: NY 00429720 image!; isotype: A 00040756 image!).

The name Rubus tsangii Merr. was validly published with only one gathering “ W. T. Tsang 20242 ” in NY cited in the protologue ( Merrill, 1934a), but no specimen with this collecting number exists in NY. However, a specimen of W. T. Tsang 20246 with the author’s written lable was annotated as “ TYPE OF: Rubus tsangii Merr. ” and matches all other details in the protologue. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the protologue is to be corrected.