Acer sycopseoides Chun

Acer sycopseoides Chun (1932:t. 3160).

Type.— China. Guangxi [Kwangsi]: Luocheng Xian [Lu-chen-hsien], [Tia-Lian-Shan], elev. ca. 540 m, 25 May 1928, R. C. Ching 5336 (IBSC0436401, lectotype designated by Fang 1939; isolectotypes A00050491, CQNM0000975, K000640908, NAS00071821, NAS00071822, NAS00071823, NAS00071824, NY00337719, PE00023451, PE00023452).

Note:—In the protologue, Chun (1932) cited a single gathering but did not specify the herbarium where the specimens are deposited. Ten duplicates are traced in herbaria A, CQNM, IBSC, K, NAS, NY and PE as listed above, and all are syntypes according to Art. 9.6 (Turland et al. 2018). When Fang (1939) wrote “type in Suny.”, he achieved to designate the lectotype for the name. The specimen IBSC043641 was previously deposited at Suny. (Abbreviation of Sun Yatsen University) and later transferred to IBSC, which bears both the title of Sun Yatsen University (in Chinese) at lower right and handwritten annotation by W. Y. Chun. In the handwritten annotation, Chun annotated in 1930 as “ Acer sycopseoides Chun, sp. nov. (Changed from A. pachyphyllu Chun, mss). Fragments deposited at Kew”, which means the specimen IBSC043641 was not the only specimen that Chun (1932) based to describe the species, and it is reasonable to be the lectotype designated by Fang (1939). It is clearly noted in the protologue (Chun 1932) that the author of this name was Chun (W. Y. Chun), and this is also supported by annotation on the lectotype, but the authorship was wrongly ascribed to F.Chun (Faith Chun or Shuzhen Chen; e.g. Xu et al. 2008).