Croton toliarensis B.W.van Ee & Kainul., 2017

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 : 59

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.90.20586
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scientific name	Croton toliarensis B.W.van Ee & Kainul.
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

119. Croton toliarensis B.W.van Ee & Kainul. nom. nov.

Croton tranomarensis var. rosmarinifolius Radcl.-Sm., Gen. Croton Madag. Comoro 196. 2016. Type. Madagascar. Prov. Toliara: 38 km SW of Ampanihy, on road to Androka, 24°50'S, 44°25'E, 5 Feb 1990, P.B. Phillipson J.-N. Labat, D. Du Puy & B. Du Puy 3434 (holotype: K! isotypes: DAV!, G!, MO!, P [P00433298]!).

Type.

Based on Croton tranomarensis var. rosmarinifolius Radcl.-Sm.

Habit and distribution.

Shrubs; southern Madagascar (Toliara).

Notes.

The specific epithet " Croton rosmarinifolius " is previously occupied in Croton ( Croton rosmarinifolius Salisb. (1796), which is itself an illegitimate replacement name for C. cascarilla (L.) L.), hence the new name coined here. In both this species as well as the similar C. chlaenacicomes , the leaf margins often become revolute when the plant is undergoing drought stress; that is most likely what caused the strongly inrolled margins on the type of C. tranomarensis var. rosmarinifolius .