Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 476

Delima sarmentosa Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1076. 1759.

["Habitat in Zeylona."] Gen. Pl., ed. 5: Appendix (1754). RCN: 3877.

Lectotype (Stearn, Four Suppl. Linnaean Publ.: 93. 1959; Hoogland in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 42. 1993): Herb. Hermann 2: 19, No. 205, lower left specimen (BM-000621572) .

Current name: Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl ( Dilleniaceae ).

Note: Hoogland (in Reinwartial 2: 190. 1953) treated D. s (p) armentosa as a synonym of Tragia scandens L. (= Tetracera scandens (L.) Merr. ) but this was based on the erroneous assumption that the type of D. sarmentosa was the unannotated 683.1 (LINN). In 1959, Stearn typified the name using material in Herb. Hermann 2: 19, and Hoogland (1993) subsequently restricted this choice to one of the three specimens on the page. This material belongs not to Tetracera scandens , however, but to a different species, Tetracera asiatica (Lour.) Hoogl. , which is now correctly known as Tetracera sarmentosa (L.) Vahl , a change subsequently taken up by Wadhwa (in Dassanayake & Clayton, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 10: 117. 1996).