Salceda Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 2: 374. (1845)

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3. Salceda Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 2: 374. (1845)

Type.

Salceda montana Blanco

Neotype

(designated here): Philippines. Luzon: Bulacan, Angat, February 1919, Ramos & Edaño 34071 (K!; isoneotypes: BM!, P04511451 [the image is available at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p04511451]!, and US 00113902 [the image is available at http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e093c26d-7aa1-4494-8723-989167baf8ba]!).

Nomenclatural notes.

Blanco (1845: 374) established the monotypic genus Salceda for S. montana . Merrill (1905: 21) transferred the species to Thea as T. montana (Blanco) Merr. and stated that “Blanco’s specimens were from Angat, Province of Bulacan". However, the types of Blanco’s species were suggested to be either all destroyed ( Merrill 1905: 6) or no longer extant ( Merrill 1918: 5). I also failed to find the original material of S. montana . Based on the protologue ( Blanco 1845: 374), a specimen collected from the same locality, Ramos & Edaño 34071 (K), is designated as the neotype of S. montana because it bears flower fragments and seeds on the sheet.

Illegitimate replacement names for Camellia and Thea

Thea L., a genus established by Linnaeus (1753: 515) for tea ( T. sinensis L., currently C. sinensis [L.] Kuntze), was treated as a synonym of Camellia by Sweet (1818: 157). Theaphylla Raf. and Tsia Adans. are illegitimate replacement names for Thea because Thea was cited in the synonymies of them ( Adanson 1763: 613; Rafinesque 1830: 267), which makes Tsia and Theaphylla nomenclaturally superfluous (Arts. 6.11, 52.1 & 52.2[e] of the ICN). Similarly, Kemelia Raf. and Tsubaki Adans. are illegitimate replacement names for Camellia ( Adanson 1763: 399; Rafinesque 1838: 139) because Camellia was cited as a synonym of them (Arts. 6.11, 52.1 & 52.2[e] of the ICN). Therefore, the four names, Kemelia , Theaphylla , Tsia and Tsubaki , are rejected under Art. 52.1 of the ICN.