Machilus robusta Smith (1921: 169)

Chakrabarty, Tapas, Rawat, Vineet Kumar, Kumar, Anand & Ghoshal, Partha Pratim, 2022, Notes on the identity of Persea haridasanii (Lauraceae) with typification of Machilus robusta, Phytotaxa 571 (1), pp. 99-102 : 99-100

Machilus robusta Smith (1921: 169) .

Type:— CHINA. Yunnan, hills to the northeast of Tengyueh, March 1913, G. Forrest 9716 (lectotype designated here, E00123812 , digital image!, Fig. 1 ; isolectotypes, A00041882, K000778788, digital images!) . Additional syntypes:— CHINA, Yunnan, Shweli valley , February 1913, G. Forrest 9594 ( A00112551 , E00123816 , K000778789 , digital images!) . CHINA. Yunnan, Shweli-Salween divide, February 1914, G. Forrest 12216 ( E00123817 , K000778787 , digital images!) . CHINA, Yunnan, Shweli-Salween divide, August 1917, G. Forrest 15753 ( E00123814 [wrongly databased as ‘15758’], K000778790 , digital images!) .

Homotypic synonym:— Persea robusta (W.W.Sm.) Kostermans (1962: 193) .

Heterotypic synonyms:— Machilus haridasanii (M.Gangop.) Gangopadhyay (2020: 444) , syn. nov.

Type:— INDIA. Arunachal Pradesh, Dibang valley district, Anini , 30 March 1984, K. Haridasan 601 (holotype, Herbarium of State Forest Research Institute , Arunachal Pradesh, Itanagar!, Fig. 2 ). INDIA. Arunachal Pradesh, Kameng district , Saiden to Jirigoon, 4 February 1995, K. P. Singh BSI-99369 (paratype, ASSAM 0000000115, image!) .

Basionym:— Persea haridasanii Gangopadhyay (2006: 133) .

Machilus haridasanii (M.Gangop.) Kumar (2020: 30) , nom. illegit.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lectotype of Machilus robusta W.W.Sm. (E00123812). © 2018 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Available at: https://data. rbge.org.uk/herb/E00123812

FIGURE 2. Holotype of Persea haridasanii M.Gangop. (Acc. No. 7832). © The Director, State Forest Research Institute, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. Reproduced with the permission.