Sterculia monosperma Vent., Jard. Malmaison

Callmander, Martin W., Durbin, Olivier D., Lack, Hans-Walter, Bungener, Patrick, Martin, Pascal & Gautier, Laurent, 2017, Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757 - 1808) and the gardens of Cels and Empress Joséphine, Candollea 72 (1), pp. 87-132 : 118

79. Sterculia monosperma Vent., Jard. Malmaison 2: tab. 91. 1805.

Lectotypus (first step designated by Tantra, 1976: 154; second step designated here): [ CHINA]: cultivated in India [more probably in Indonesia], Anon. s.n. ( G [ G00341673 ]!).

Notes. – Tantra (1976: 154) designated a collection in “Herb. de Ventenat” at G as the type with no more information. This cannot be accepted as an implicit lectotypification since two gatherings exists at G in Ventenat’s herbarium: the collection cultivated in Cels’s garden and a collection probably from Indonesia. The origin of the collection that Ventenat received is doubtful. Sterculia monosperma is endemic to China, the Malay Peninsula and Java (Tranta, 1976). Ventenat coined the name S. monosperma because his specimen possessed a single seeded fruit. The fruiting collection of doubtful origin at G [G00341673] is therefore designated here as the lectotype. The cultivated collection in flower from Cels’s garden [G00358626] is considered as an element of original material.