Eugenia roxburghii Candolle 1828
Creators: name: Singh, Rajeev Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Eugenia
Eugenia roxburghii

description: Eugenia roxburghii Candolle (1828: 271).
≡ Eugenia zeylanica Roxburgh (1832: 490), nom. superfl., non Willdenow (1799: 963). ≡ Eugenia bracteata var. roxburghii (DC.) Duthie (1879: 502).
Type citation in protologue:—“in Silhet Indiae orient. Eugen. Zeylanica Roxb! cat. 92. Non Willd.”.
Lectotype (designated here):— BANGLADESH. Silhet (Sylhet), s.d., W. Roxburgh s.n. (G00658433 [digital image!]; isolectotypes BR0000013090425 [digital image!], BR0000013090432 [digital image!], BR0000013090449 [digital image!], G00658431 [digital image!], G00658432 [digital image!], K000821515 [digital image!], K001119842 [digital image!]).
= Eugenia fasciculata Wallich ex Blume (1850: 87). ≡ Eugenia bracteata var. fasciculata (Wallich ex Blume) Duthie (1879: 502).
Type citation in protologue:—“Herb. WALL. nº. 3622”.
Lectotype (designated by Prasanth et al. 2021):— INDIA. Meghalaya: Mount. Pundua (Padua), 1824, (Wallich cat. n. 3622) F. De Silva s.n. (K001119849 [digital image!]; isolectotypes K000821513 [digital image!], K001000052 [digital image!], L0822648 [digital image!], L0822649 [digital image!], M0137672 [digital image!], M0137673 [digital image!], NY00405055 [digital image!], U1442025 [digital image!]).
= Myrtus bracteata Willdenow (1799: 969). ≡ Eugenia bracteata (Willd.) Raeuschel ex Candolle (1828: 264), nom. illeg., non Richard (1792: 110).
Holotype:— INDIA. Without locality, 1796, (Herb. Willdenow) J.G. Klein s.n. (B-W09553-010 [digital image!]).
= Myrtus ruscifolia Willdenow (1799: 970).
Type citation in protologue:—“ Habitat in India orientali ”.
Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Coromandel: Without locality, s.d., (Herb. Willdenow) W. Roxburgh s.n. (B-W09557-030 [digital image!]; isolectotype BM000944117 [digital image!]).
Remaining syntypes:— INDIA. Without locality, 11 September 1799, J.G. Klein 566 (BR0000005228355 [digital image!], B-W09557- 010[digital image!], HAL0089712[digital image!], K001119846[digital image!]); Tenpadtnam, 3 October 1799, J.G. Klein s.n. (BW09557-020 [digital image!]).
Notes:—The three specimens at G were considered here when choosing a lectotype for the name Eugenia roxburghii DC., because these specimens belongs to herbarium Candolle and were examined by him while describing E. roxburghii. Of these three specimens, the best one and betterpreserved specimen G00658433, is designated here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.
The two specimens at B-W were considered here for choosing a lectotype for the name Myrtus ruscifolia Willd., because these specimens were examined by Willdenow while describing M. ruscifolia. The specimen B-W09557-030 is well preserved, has mature leaves, well developed flowers and therefore selected here as the lectotype as it agrees well with the protologue.
description: Published as part of Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2024, Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Eugenia (Myrtaceae) from India, pp. 268-276 in Phytotaxa 638 (3) on page 272, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.638.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13213050