Palmatiboea gamosepalus (Xin Hong & F. Wen) F. Wen & Q. Fan, 2024

Wen, Fang & Fan, Qiang, 2024, Several new combinations from previous Didymocarpus to Palmatiboea (Gesneriaceae), PhytoKeys 250, pp. 1-6 : 1-6

Palmatiboea gamosepalus (Xin Hong & F. Wen) F. Wen & Q. Fan comb. nov.

≡ Didymocarpus heucherifolius var. gamosepalus Xin Hong & F. Wen , in PhytoKeys 128: 34. 2019.

≡ Palmatiboea heucherifolia var. gamosepala (Xin Hong & F. Wen) F. P. Liu & Y. Z. Wang , in Journal of Systematic and Evolution doi: 10.1111/jse.13124: 13. 2024.

Type.

China • Guangxi Province, cultivated in the nursery of Gesneriad Conservation Center of China (GCCC), introduced from north of Guangdong Province: Pingyuan County, Meizhou City , growing in rocky crevices at the foot of a calcareous sedimentary rocky hill. 22 February 2019, flowering, WF 20190222-05 (holotype: IBK!; isotype: AHU!)

Notes.

We have noticed that several newly revised species and genera names use the name abbreviation of the corresponding author Yin-Zheng Wang as “ Y. Z. Wang, ” such as the names of the two new genera, Palmatiboea F. P. Liu & Y. Z. Wang and Hequnia Y. Z. Wang & F. P. Liu in Liu et al. (2024). However, the name abbreviation “ Y. Z. Wang ” originates from Prof. Wang Yun-Zhang, a renowned Chinese mycologist and plant pathologist, whose name abbreviation first appeared in the 1980 s when he described 15 new species of Rust Fungi ( Wang et al. 1980). Prof. Wang Yin-Zheng, on the other hand, first published a new taxon in the mid- 1990 s, Whytockia purpurascens Yin Z. Wang and W. hekouensis Yin Z. Wang ( Wang 1995). When W. purpurascens and W. hekouensis were published, the author’s name abbreviation was mistakenly written as “ Y. Z. Wang. ” However, the abbreviation “ Y. Z. Wang ” for Prof. Wang Yun-Zhang appeared 15 years earlier than that of Prof. Wang Yin-Zheng when describing new taxa ( IPNI 2024); therefore, for the aforementioned nomenclature, including the new genera Palmatiboea and Hequnia and their respective species. Additionally, there are quite a few revised species of Gesneriaceae that incorrectly use “ Y. Z. Wang ” to refer to Prof. Wang Yin-Zheng. For example, Petrocosmea shilinensis Y. M. Shui & H. T. Zhao var. changhuensis T. F. Lü & Y. Z. Wang should be changed as P. shilinensis var. changhuensis T. F. Lü & Yin Z. Wang ( Li et al. 2020), and so on. In summary, the correct name abbreviation should be “ Yin Z. Wang, ” not “ Y. Z. Wang ” among the many revised species epithets of Gesneriaceae mentioned above.