Typification of two names in Myrtaceae from Indian subcontinent
Author
Prasanth, Arun
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Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune- 411007 (M. S.) India. & aprasanthpu @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1013 - 1114
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Author
Jothi, Jeya
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Applied Plant Biotechnology Research Unit, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai- 600 034 & gjjothiloyola @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1486 - 4099
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Author
Vijayakumar, Atshaya
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Applied Plant Biotechnology Research Unit, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai- 600 034 & atshayavijayakumar 97 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1665 - 934 X
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Phytotaxa
2021
2021-06-01
505
3
297
300
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.505.3.5
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.505.3.5
1179-3163
5425493
2.
Syzygium cumini
(L.) Skeels.
=
Eugenia brachiata
Roxburgh (1832: 488)
.
Lectotype
(designated here):—
INDIA
.
West Bengal
,
Howrah
: AJC
Bose Botanical
garden (then Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta),
s.d.,
Roxburgh
s.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. brachiata
in his work
Hortus Bengalensis
based on the specimen brought by ‘H. Colebrook’ from
Moluccas
island 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 Roxburgh
collection 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 Roxburghianae
No. 1978. Hence, the specimen BM000944124 matches the protologue and is here designated as
lectotype
for the name.
Eugenia brachiata
is presently considered as a synonym of
Syzygium cumini
(see e. g.
Soh & Parnell 2015
;
Byng
et al.
2016
).