Taxus chienii W.C.Cheng

Chen, Feng & He, Hai, 2022, The historical relics in Chongqing Natural History Museum: An annotated checklist of original materials for 37 names of Chinese seed plants, Phytotaxa 530 (1), pp. 38-52 : 47

Taxus chienii W.C.Cheng

in Cheng & Chien (1934: 240).

Type:— CHINA. Zhejiang [Chekiang]: Longquan, Maoshan, 7 October 1934, Y. Y. Ho 3166 ( NAS00070071 , lectotype first-step designated by Law 1947, second-step designated by Chen & Deng 2015; isolectotypes NAS00022503 , NAS00024819 , NAS00068361 , PE00000080 , SYS00000507 ) . Remaining syntypes: CHINA. Zhejiang: Longquan, Maoshan, elev. ca. 1000 m, 14 May 1933, S. Chen 1384 ( A00018684 , IBSC0003234 , NAS00070073 , PE00000078 , PE00000079 , PE00000084 , SYS00095336 , S(S-C-2195), WUK0000141 , WUK0000144 ); 14 May 1934, S. Chen 3024 ( CQNM0000208 , IBSC0003236 , NF1005377 , PE00000085 , SYS00095335 , S(S-C-2194)) . Paratypes in CQNM: CHINA. Zhejiang, Longquan, Maoshan, elev. ca. 1000, 11 May 1934, S. Chen 3010 ( CQNM0000206 , CQNM0000207 , IBSC0003235 , NAS00070070 , NAS00070072 , PE00000089 , SYS00095334 ) .

≡ Pseudotaxus chienii (W.C.Cheng) W.C.Cheng (1947: 1).

Note:— In the protologue, Cheng & Chien (1934) designated three gatherings as types of male cone, female cone and fruiting, respectively and all of them are syntypes according to Art. 9.6. Lin & Cao (2007) selected a duplicate of S. Chen 1384 at PE as the lectotype, which bears male cones. However, they overlooked that Law (1947) had indicated Y. Y. Ho 1633 as the type but did not specify the herbarium where the type is deposited. Law’s choice may be considered the first-step lectotipification. Under Art. 9.19, his choice must be followed and the choice of Lin & Cao is to be superseded. Chen & Deng (2015) further narrowed to a specimen ( NAS00070071 ) as the lectotype under 9.17.