Celtis dubia De Wildeman (1921

Zamengo, Henrique Borges, Chamorro, Debora, Gaglioti, André Luiz & Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso, 2023, Nomenclatural revision of the names of Celtis (Cannabaceae) described for Africa, and lectotypification of one Asian name, Phytotaxa 603 (3), pp. 205-223 : 210

Celtis dubia De Wildeman (1921 : B5).

Type: — AFRICA. Congo Republic, “ Forêt aux bords de l’Ituri”, 18 February 1914, fr., J. Bequaert 2525 (lectotype, designated here, BR barcode 0000008971173!; isolectotype BR barcode 0000008969231!) .

Nomenclatural notes: —When describing C. dubia, De Wildeman (1921) cited the gathering J. Bequaert 2525 without specifying the herbarium in which specimens were conserved. Polhill (1964) and Sattarian et al. (2006) stated that the “ holotype ” was in BR. Two specimens of J. Bequaert 2525 were located in BR. Considering that De Wildeman (1921) did not indicate the herbarium and that the proposal by Sattarian et al. (2006) cannot be considered an effective lectotypification (ICN Art. 7.11), we designated the specimen in Herb. BR with barcode 0000008971173 as lectotype (ICN Art. 9.3), because this specimen has fruits and De Wildeman (1921) indicated he had only seen fruiting material.

Taxonomic notes: —Synonym of C. mildbraedii ( Sattarian et al. 2006) .