Justicia bojeri (Nees) Graham (1988: 587)

Soumya, Puliyakode & Sunojkumar, Purayidathkandy, 2019, Typification of three names in Justicia L. (Acanthaceae), Phytotaxa 391 (2), pp. 138-142 : 138

Justicia bojeri (Nees) Graham (1988: 587)

≡ Anisostachya bojeri Nees (1847: 368)

Lectotype (designated here):— MADAGASCAR, s.d., W. Bojer s.n. ( G00676629 ) Fig. 2 .

Notes:— Justicia bojeri was originally described by Nees (1847) under the genus Anisostachya (as Anisostachya bojeri ). In the protologue the author mentioned two specimens from Madagascar as type ( Ruellia anisostachya Bojer ! in h. gen. monac. & Strobilanthes anisostachya Bojer ! in h. Dc). So, these are syntypes according to Art. 9.6 of ICN (Turland et al., 2018). Later, Graham (1988) transferred Anisostachya bojeri to Justicia as J. bojeri and cited the Type as “ Madagascar, prov. Emirnae, Bojer s.n.” and mentioned a specimen at BM from this locality, Hilsenberg & Bojer s.n., could represent type material. However, the specimen at BM (BM000931153) does not belong to the syntype specimens cited by Nees in the protologue of Anisostachya bojeri . Therefore, this is not an effective typification, because she didn’t designate the correct lectotype for the name. After an exhaustive search on various herbaria, we traced five sheets of A. bojeri collected by Bojer. Among them, the sheet kept at M (M0109751) and G (G00676629) are two syntypes mentioned by Nees in the protologue as “ Ruellia anisostachya Bojer ! & Strobilanthes anisostachya Bojer !” respectively. Other sheets (P00091017, BM000931153, and GZU000250579) also qualify as original material. Hence, we select G00676629 as lectotype according to Art. 9.3 of the ICN (Turland et al., 2018). The sheet also matches well with the description provided in the protologue.

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Justicia bojeri (Nees)V.A.W. Graham (G00676629). © The Board of Trustees for the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G), Switzerland. Reproduced with permission.