Croton bocquillonii Baill., Adansonia 1: 161. 1861, as 'bocquilloni'

Berry, Paul E., Kainulainen, Kent & Ee, Benjamin W. van, 2017, A Nomenclator of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, and the Mascarene Islands, PhytoKeys 90, pp. 1-87 : 19-20

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.90.20586

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scientific name

Croton bocquillonii Baill., Adansonia 1: 161. 1861, as 'bocquilloni'
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25. Croton bocquillonii Baill., Adansonia 1: 161. 1861, as 'bocquilloni'

Oxydectes bocquillonii (Baill.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 611. 1891. Type. Based on Croton bocquillonii Baill.

Croton brevispicatus var. bocquillonii (Baill.) Leandri, Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille, sér. 5, 7(1): 27. 1939. Type. Based on Croton bocquillonii Baill.

Type.

Madagascar. Prov. Mahajanga: Ambongo , 16 Feb 1841, A. Pervillé 648 (lectotype, designated here: P [P00127552]!; isolectotypes: P [P00127553]!, P [P00127554]!, P [P00131420]!) .

Habit and distribution.

Shrubs; western Madagascar (Mahajanga).

Notes.

The sheet chosen here as lectotype bears two labels, one on the left that lists Pervillé 648 as the collector, and one on the right in Baillon's hand that seemingly attributes the collection to Boivin, stating "ex Ambongo, cum cl. Pervillé et Bernier comm. (1846)." Baillon lists this in his protologue as a separate collection, but it looks identical to the other syntypes, so we believe it is actually part of the same collection by Pervillé.

The types lack pistillate flowers, but they are distinctive from C. brevispicatus in bearing a pair of sessile acropetiolar glands and in having relatively long petioles for the size of the leaf, and blades with a rounded-cuneate base and an acuminate apex.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Genus

Croton

Loc

Croton bocquillonii Baill., Adansonia 1: 161. 1861, as 'bocquilloni'

Berry, Paul E., Kainulainen, Kent & Ee, Benjamin W. van 2017
2017
Loc

Croton brevispicatus var. bocquillonii

Leandri 1939
1939
Loc

Oxydectes bocquillonii

Kuntze 1891
1891