Eugenia discifera Gamble 1918
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Clarification on the typification of Eugenia discifera
Eugenia discifera Gamble (1918: 239).
Type citation in protologue:—“SOUTH INDIA. Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats in Travancore, near Chimunji, 1300 m., April, 1895, T. F. Bourdillon, 580, 787”.
Lectotype (designated by Nair & Srinivasan 1980): INDIA. Travancore: near Chimunji, 1300 m, 3 April 1895, T.F. Bourdillon 580 (CAL0000015511!; isolectotypes CAL0000015510!, K000821387 [digital image!]).
Remaining syntype:— INDIA. Travancore: near Chimunji, 1300 m, April 1895, T.F. Bourdillon 787 (K001000002 [digital image!]).
Notes:— Nair & Srinivasan (1980) effectively designated the lectotype for the name Eugenia discifera Gamble by selecting specimen CAL0000015511 (Figure 3) upon rediscovery of E. discifera after 85 years. However, Byng et al. (2015) later designated specimen K000821387 as the lectotype, unaware of the earlier lectotypification by Nair & Srinivasan (1980). Consequently, the lectotypification by Byng et al. (2015) cannot be upheld, as Nair & Srinivasan (1980) were the original authors who effectively lectotypified E. discifera.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CAL
- Material sample ID
- CAL0000015511
- Event date
- 1895-04-03
- Verbatim event date
- 1895-04-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Gamble
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Myrtales
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Eugenia
- Species
- discifera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eugenia discifera Gamble, 1918 sec. Singh, 2024
References
- Gamble, J. S. (1918) XCI - Decades Kewenses. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1918: 238 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 4118677
- Nair, N. C. & Srinivasan, S. R. (1980) Rediscovery of Eugenia Discifera Gamble (Myrtaceae) and its Lectotypification. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 22: 232 - 233.
- Byng, J. W., Wilson, P. G. & Snow, N. (2015) Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Indian Myrtaceae. Phytotaxa 217: 101 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 217.2.1