Eugenia brachiata Roxburgh (1832: 488)
E. brachiata
Flora Indica ( Roxburgh 1832 )
major Roxburgh
Eugenia brachiata
Eugenia brachiata
Syzygium cumini
Typification of two names in Myrtaceae from Indian subcontinent
Prasanth, Arun
Jothi, Jeya
Vijayakumar, Atshaya
Phytotaxa
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2. Syzygium cumini(L.) Skeels.
= Eugenia brachiata Roxburgh (1832: 488). Lectotype(designated here):— INDIA. West Bengal, Howrah: AJC Bose Botanicalgarden (then Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta), s.d., Roxburghs.n.(BM000944124! image: https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/a680eb2e-b9cc- 4166-8ebc-9d4b7dbea926/1601856000000). Figure 2. Note:—William Roxburgh (1814: 37)proposed the binominal E. brachiatain his work Hortus Bengalensisbased on the specimen brought by ‘H. Colebrook’ from Moluccasisland and grown in Botanical Garden, Calcutta. However, no description has been provided and the name is to be considered not validly published ( nomen nudum; Articles 38.1 and 38.2 of ICN, Turland et al.2018). Later, Roxburgh himself provided a description in his work Flora Indica( Roxburgh 1832). In the protologue he mentioned “A native of Amboyna. In the Botanical garden at Calcutta it blooms in May, the fruit ripens in July”. Stafleu and Cowan (1983: 954)stated that the major Roxburghcollection is in K and considerable sets are found in BM, BR, E, G and LIV. We could trace a specimen available in BM (BM000944124), consisting of a flowering twig with few leaves; there is annotation in the label “ Eugenia brachiata” and “Roxburgh”. No further material was found except an illustration of Roxburgh in Icones RoxburghianaeNo. 1978. Hence, the specimen BM000944124 matches the protologue and is here designated as lectotypefor the name. Eugenia brachiatais presently considered as a synonym of Syzygium cumini(see e. g. Soh & Parnell 2015; Byng et al.2016).
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India
Howrah
Roxburgh
Bose Botanical
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West Bengal
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