Ligustrum purpurascens Yen C. Yang (1939: 112)

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 : 44

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Ligustrum purpurascens Yen C. Yang (1939: 112) View in CoL .

Type:— CHINA. Sichuan [Szechuan]: Dujiangyan [Kuan-hsien], elev. 900–1100 m, 4 July 1928, W. P. Fang 1986 (lectotype first-step by Green 1995, second-step designated here, NAS00072233 About NAS ; isolectotypes IBSC0513407 About IBSC , K000449355 , NAS00072234 About NAS , P00640724 , PE01509633 ) . Remaining syntypes: CHINA. Sichuan: Mt. Emei [Omei], elev. 450–600 m, 2 August 1928, W. P. Fang 2348 PE01509634 , PE01509663 ). Paratypes in CQNM: CHINA. Sichuan: Mt. Emei , elev. ca. 960, 3 June 1931, Ching & Shun 28 ( CQNM0015758 About CQNM , PE01509642 , PE01509651 ), elev. 1170 m, 12 June 1935, T. H. Tu 270 ( CQNM0015730 About CQNM , IBK00094390 About IBK , IBK00094391 About IBK , IBK00094392 About IBK , IBK00094393 About IBK , IBSC0513433 About IBSC , NAS00069260 About NAS , PE01509655 , PE01509657 , PE01509724 , PE01509725 ,), elev. ca. 1600 m, 9 September 1935, T. H. Tu 798 ( CQNM0017383 About CQNM , IBK00294049 About IBK , IBSC0513435 About IBSC , PE01509652 , PE01509653 , PE01509676 ); Mt. Emei , 1931, T. Tang [or F. T. Wang] 23193 ( CQNM0015731 About CQNM , WUK0048172 About WUK , IBSC0513397 About IBSC , IBSC0513414 About IBSC , LBG00106364 View Materials , KUN0062230 About KUN , PE01509627 , PE01509628 ), 1931, Wang & Tu 404b ( CQNM0015729 About CQNM ) .

= Ligustrum robustum subsp. chinense P.S.Green (1995: 385) View in CoL .

Note:—In the protologue, Yang (1939) indictated two gatherings, W. P. Fang 1986 and W. P. Fang 2348, as the types, and both are thus syntypes according to Art.9.6 ( Turland et al. 2018). Green (1995) cited W.P. Fang 1986 as the type, and indicated the duplicate at K as “isotype”, but he did not mention which one is the “ holotype ”. Therefore, Green (1995) has achieved to first-step lectotypification for the name by the gathering W.P. Fang 1986. Five duplicates of W. P. Fang 1986 were traced from four herbaria above, and two sheets (NAS00072233, NAS00072234) bear the labels with Yang’s handwritten. The duplicate NAS00072233 is designated as second-step lectotypification for the name because of its better condition and annotated by its original author Yang. It should be noticed that Lin (2009) overlooked the Green’s choice and selected W.P. Fang 2348 at PE as the lectotype, According to Art. 9. 19, Green’s choice must be followed and Lin’s choice should be therefore superseded. Yang (1939) also cited nine gatherings as paratypes, and five of which are found at CQNM. By comparing the available duplicates in different herbaria, we found quite a lot of type errors on the information of paratypes. The gathering cited as “ T. H. Tu 270 ” should be corrected to Ching & Shun 28, collected on 3 June 1931 rather than 8 June 1931, while another gathering cited as “ T. H. Tu 270 (?) ” is T. H. Tu 270 collected on 12 June 1935. “ T. H. Tu 398 ” should be corrected to T. H. Tu 798. On most duplicates in the herbaria other than CQNM, the gathering “ T. Tang 23193 ” bears the label with the collector “F. T. Wang” and collected on 4 July 1931 from Mt. Emei although the tied tag with the reading “Szechuan Exp., T. Tang, 1930”. However, only the duplicate CQNM0015731 has the label with the name “ Ligustrum purpurascens Yang , sp. nov. ” annotated by Y. C. Yang (Yen Chin Yang) in 1930.