Syzygium schmidii Rathakrishnan & N.C. Nair (1983: 288)

Byng, James W., Wilson, Peter G. & Snow, Neil, 2015, Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Indian Myrtaceae, Phytotaxa 217 (2), pp. 101-116 : 111

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31. Syzygium schmidii Rathakrishnan & N.C. Nair (1983: 288) View in CoL .

= Eugenia cuneata Duthie (1878: 495) View in CoL , nom. illeg. non B.Heyne ex Beddome 1872. = Syzygium cuneatum N.P. Balakrishnan (1981: 199) View in CoL [May 1981], nom. illeg., non S. cuneatum (Blume) Masamune 1942 View in CoL . = Syzygium cuneatum Brahmam & H.O. Saxena, (1981: 417) View in CoL [28 Aug 1981], nom. illeg. Lectotype (designated here):— BANGLADESH. Silhet, Wallich Catalogue Number 3598 (K! [barcode K000821356]; isolectotypes CAL!, K! [barcodes K001004281, K001119788]). Remaining syntypes:— Griffith 2398 (K! [barcode K001004273), J.D. Hooker & T. Thomson s.n. (K! [barcodes K001004275, K001004277, K001004278]).

Distribution:— India [Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Orissa, West Bengal] and Bangladesh; 100–1300 m.

Notes:— Three syntypes were noted in Duthie’s protologue: Silhet, Wallich; E. Bengal, Griffith; Khasia Mts. , J.D. Hooker & T. Thomson. The primary reference was to Wallich Catalogue Number 3598, which we have chosen as lectotype, and which has the added advantage that duplicates are present in more than one herbarium ( K, CAL) .