Artemisia roxburghiana Besser, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 21-23

Artemisia roxburghiana Besser, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 9: 57 (1836). – Type:

India, Cachemyr [Kashmir], V. Jacquemond 991 (lectotype P [ P00711989 ], designated by Thammarong et al., Thai J. Bot. 13: 94 [2021]; isolectotype P [ P00711988 ]) .

A specimen in P has been selected as lectotype for this Asian wormwood.

Aspidopterys indica (Willd.) W.Theob. in Mason, Burmah, ed. 3, 2: 599 (1883). – Triopterys indica Willd., Sp. Pl. , ed. 4, 2(1): 744 (1799). – Hiraea indica (Willd.) Roxb. ex DC., Prodr.

1: 585 (1824). – Aspidopterys roxburghiana A.Juss., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., Sér. 2, 13: 267 (1840), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type : India, W. Roxburgh 80 (lectotype B-W [ B - W 08868 -01 0], designated here) .

Aspidopterys roxburghiana A.Juss. is a superfluous renaming of Triopterys indica Willd.

Atalantia simplicifolia (Roxb.) Engl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(4): 192 (1896). – Amyris simplicifolia Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 244 (1832). – Sclerostylis roxburghii Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind.

Orient. 1(4): t. 72 (1838), as ‘Roxburgii’, nom. illegit., superfl. – Atalantia roxburghii Oliv., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5(Suppl. 2): 25 (1861), nom. illegit., superfl. – Atalantia roxburghiana Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1(3): 513 (1875), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype BM [BM000798422], designated by Tanaka, J. Bot. 68: 232 [1930]).

Amyris simplicifolia Roxb. has three superflous renamings.

Balanites roxburghii Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., Sér. 4, 2: 258, t. 2 (1854), as ‘Roxburgii’. – Agialid roxburghii (Planch.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 103 (1891), as ‘Agialida’. – Balanites aegyptiaca var. roxburghii (Planch.) Duthie, Fl. Gangetic Plain 1(1): 145 (1903). – Type: India, Hortus Botanicus Calcuttensis, Anon. s.n. [EIC 6855C] (lectotype K [n.v.], designated by Sands, Kew Bull. 56: 46 [2001]; isolectotypes BM [BM000798497], K-W [K001124994]).

Baliospermum solanifolium (Burm.) Suresh in Nicolson et al., Interpr. Van Rheede’s Hort. Malab.: 106 (1988). – Croton solanifolius Burm., Fl. Malab. 6 (1769). – Type: [published illustration] ‘ Naga Danti’, Rheede, Hort. Malab. 10: t. 76 (1690) (lectotype designated by Chakrabarty, Ann. Pl. Sci. 8(10): 3630 [2020]).

Jatropha montana Willd., Sp. Pl. , ed. 4, 4(1): 563 (1805). – Croton polyandrus Roxb., Fl. Ind.

3: 682 (1832), as ‘polyandrum’, nom. illegit., non C. polyandrus Spreng. (1821) . – Croton roxburghii Wall., Rep. Calcutta Bot. Gard. to G.A. Bushby 20 (1840). – Type: India, Hort. Miss., i 1799, J.P. Rottler 379 (lectotype B-W [B -W 17927 -01 0], designated by Radcliffe- Smith, Fl. Pakistan 172: 84 [1986]).

Wallich provided Croton roxburghii to replace Croton polyandrus Roxb. , which was an unsuccessful attempt at a nomen novum in Croton for Jatropha montana Willd. , as the epithet ‘montanus’ was not available in Croton .

Banara roxburghii Spreng., Syst. Veg. , ed. 16, 2: 479 (1825). – Type: Ind. or.

Sprengel’s Banara roxburghii remains a mystery in the absence of any known specimens, although from the description (T. M. A. Utteridge, K, personal communication), a species of Alphitonia , perhaps Alphitonia incana (Roxb.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz , is a possibility.

Begonia roxburghii (Miq.) A.DC., Prodr. 15(1): 398 (1864). – Diploclinium roxburghii Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 692 (1856). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2321 (lectotype K, designated here). Figure 3 .

Camfield and Hughes (2018) lectotypified Diploclinium roxburghii Miq. to a Hooker & Thomson specimen in K. However, this was collected in Khasia, not Chittagong, the only locality referred to by either Roxburgh (under Begonia malabarica ) or Miquel. I therefore select Roxburgh’s drawing as lectotype here, as no original specimens can be traced.

Figures

Figure 3. The lectotype of Diploclinium roxburghii Miq., basionym of Begonia roxburghii (Miq.) A.DC. Icones Roxburghianae 2321 in the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reproduced with the permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.