Smilax ovalifolia Roxb. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 85-86

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https://doi.org/ 10.24823/EJB.2022.1911

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scientific name

Smilax ovalifolia Roxb. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl.
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Smilax ovalifolia Roxb. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl. View in CoL Nepal. 49 (1825). – Type: Nepal, Narainhetty, 7 ii

1803, F. Buchanan-Hamilton s.n. (lectotype LINN [ HS 1542.15 About LINN ], designated here) .

Smilax macrophylla Roxb., Fl. Ind. View in CoL 3: 793 (1832), nom. illegit., non S. macrophylla Willd. (1806) View in CoL . – Smilax roxburghii Kunth, Enum. Pl. View in CoL 5: 852 (1845). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2567 (lectotype K, designated here).

Smilax roxburghii Kunth View in CoL is a nomen novum for Smilax macrophylla Roxb. View in CoL , a later homonym. A Roxburgh drawing is selected as lectotype for these names. The accepted name, Smilax ovalifolia View in CoL , is also lectotypified to a specimen in the Smith Herbarium, as no type material was found in BM.

Smilax roxburghiana Wall. ex Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts 381 (1839), nom. illegit., non S. roxburghiana A.DC. (1836) . – Type: not traced.

Wallich (1831 –1832) proposed Smilax roxburghiana as a replacement name for the Indian species Roxburgh had named Smilax laurifolia L. However , Roxburgh’s description was not published until after Wallich’s catalogue entry, so Wallich’s name was not validated there. Alphonse de Candolle did validate the name, but he actually described a menisperm species in cultivation in Switzerland. Royle seems to have been the first to validate the name as Wallich intended, but it was by then a later homonym. Unfortunately, I have not traced any original material related to Roxburgh’s plant, so it is not possible to confirm its true identity. Smilax ocreata A.DC. seems the best fit to Roxburgh’s description.

Sohmaea diffusa (DC.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi, J. Jap. Bot. View in CoL 93: 161 (2018). – Desmodium diffusum DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. View in CoL (Paris) 4: 100 (1825). – Desmodium roxburghii Sweet, Hort. Brit. View in CoL 479 (1826), nom. illegit., superfl. – Hedysarum roxburghii Spreng., Syst. Veg. View in CoL , ed. 16, 4(2, Cur. Post.): 292 (1827), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: Inde, W. Roxburgh s.n. (holotype G-DC [G00317409] [two sheets]).

Desmodium roxburghii Sweet View in CoL and Hedysarum roxburghii Spreng. View in CoL are superfluous renamings of Desmodium diffusum DC. View in CoL

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

LINN

Linnean Society of London

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Liliales

Family

Smilacaceae

Genus

Smilax

Loc

Smilax ovalifolia Roxb. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl.

Turner, Ian M. 2022
2022
Loc

Sohmaea diffusa (DC.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi, J. Jap. Bot.

H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi 2018: 161
2018
Loc

Smilax roxburghii

Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1845: 852
1845
Loc

Smilax macrophylla

Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1832: 793
1832
Loc

Desmodium diffusum DC., Ann. Sci. Nat.

1825: 100
1825
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