The botanical legacy of Thomas Hardwicke’s journey to Srinagar in 1796
Author
Turner, Ian M.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2015
2015-01-06
108
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journal article
22437
10.5852/ejt.2015.108
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Ficus luducca
Roxburgh (1832b)
included two of the figs that Hardwicke found on his journey to Srinagar (
Ficus luducca
and
F. chincha
). Hardwicke included four
Ficus
species in his
Asiatick Researches
paper –
Ficus laminosa
and unnamed species numbered 2–4. There is no clear direct link to relate Hardwicke’s species to Roxburgh’s names, but the descriptions indicate, as supported by
Madden (1849)
, that Hardwicke’s ‘
Ficus
2’ refers to
Ficus luducca
, and ‘
Ficus
3’ to
F. chincha
. There is a Roxburgh specimen in the BR herbarium that must have come from Hardwicke judging by the collection label.
Corner (1960b)
effectively lectotypified the name to this specimen.