Syzygium grande (Wight) Walpers (1843: 180)

Byng, James W., Wilson, Peter G. & Snow, Neil, 2015, Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Indian Myrtaceae, Phytotaxa 217 (2), pp. 101-116 : 107

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Syzygium grande (Wight) Walpers (1843: 180)
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18. Syzygium grande (Wight) Walpers (1843: 180) View in CoL .

= Eugenia grandis Wight (1841: 17) View in CoL . = Jambosa grandis (Wight) Blume (1849: 108) View in CoL . Type citation: ‘‘ Mergui —Griffith , Silhet. ” Lectotype (designated here):—BURMA [ MYANMAR]. Mergui, Griffith s.n. (K! [barcode K000821429 ]; isolectotype P! [barcode P05208756]).

= Eugenia firma Wallich, Wallich View in CoL Catalogue Number 3603A (BM!, K!, L!, M!, P!, PH!), nom. nud. = Jambosa firma Blume (1850: 108) View in CoL . = Syzygium firmum (Blume) Thwaites & Hooker View in CoL filius (1864: 417). Lectotype (designated here):— BANGLADESH. Silhet, Wallich Catalogue Number 3603A (M! [barcode M-0137815]; isolectotypes P! [barcodes P05208746, P05208740, P05208752], PH! [barcode 00013299], L!, K! [barcode K001119799], BM!).

= Eugenia cymosa Roxburgh (1832: 492) View in CoL , nom. illeg., non Lamarck 1789. Type: Icones Roxburghianae 2498 (holotype K!).

= Syzygium megalophyllum Merrill & L.M. Perry (1939: 179) View in CoL . Type:— MALAYSIA. Sabah, Creagh s.n. (holotype NY; isotypes A, K! [barcodes K000259498 , K000259499 ).

= Syzygium grande var. parvifolium Chantaranothai & J.Parnell (1993: 598) View in CoL . Type:— THAILAND. Chaiyaphum, Pu Kio, 25 February 1931, Kerr 20267 (holotype K! [barcode K000276202 ]; isotype BK).

= Syzygium endertii Merrill & L.M.Perry (1939: 167) View in CoL . Type:— INDONESIA. East Kalimantan, Kutet, near Kg Sabantulung , Endert 1523 (holotype BO; isotypes A, L!).

Distribution:— India [Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu], Bangladesh, Cambodia, Malesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Sometimes cultivated; 0‒1000 m.

Notes:—Of all the probable original material, the specimen chosen as lectotype of Eugenia grandis is the best match to the description in protologue: “A magnificent species at once distinguished by its large broad oval, very obtuse, thick coriaceous leaves, and dense somewhat capitate many flowered cymes.”

When describing Jambosa firma, Blume cited the unpublished Wallich binomial but gave the distribution as ‘Borneo’ as well as ‘Sillet’. Since the taxonomic concept is based on Wallich’s name and Wallich specimens from Sillet/Silhet, which are listed in his catalogue as 3603A, we have selected a good representative specimen in the Munich herbarium as lectotype.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Myrtales

Family

Myrtaceae

Genus

Syzygium

Loc

Syzygium grande (Wight) Walpers (1843: 180)

Byng, James W., Wilson, Peter G. & Snow, Neil 2015
2015
Loc

Eugenia firma Wallich, Wallich

Blume, C. L. 1850: )
1850
Loc

Eugenia grandis

Wight, R. 1841: )
1841
Loc

Eugenia cymosa

Roxburgh, W. 1832: )
1832
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