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Syzygium cumini Skeels 1912

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Myrtus cumini Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 471. 1753.

"Habitat in Zeylona." RCN: 3608.

Lectotype (Kostermans in Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 34: 134. 1981; Verdcourt in Beentje, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Myrtaceae: 72. 2001): Herb. Hermann 1: 45, No. 185, right specimen (BM-000621389).

Current name: Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels (Myrtaceae).

Note: The earliest type choice appears to be that of Kostermans who designated material in Herb. Hermann 1: 41 (BM) as the type. Presumably unaware of this, Scott (in Bosser & al., Fl. Mascareignes 92: 40. 1990) designated 637.10 (LINN) as type, but Parnell & Chantaranothai (in Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 21: 57. 1994) pointed out that this collection is not identifiable as S. cumini. Verdcourt subsequently restricted the type choice to one of the two collections on Hermann’s sheet.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 688, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM-000621389
Scientific name authorship
Skeels
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Myrtales
Family
Myrtaceae
Genus
Syzygium
Species
cumini
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Syzygium cumini Skeels, 1912 sec. Jarvis, 2007