The Lauraceae Juss. of Indo-China: fifteen new species, four new combinations and two neotypifications
Author
De Kok, Rogier P. J.
text
Adansonia
2023
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2023-01-09
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2.
Cinnamomum loureiroi
Nees
Systema Laurinarum
65 (
Nees 1836
)
;
Merr.,
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
14: 164 (
Merrill 1935
)
;
Nguyén Kim Đào,
Flora of
Vietnam
20: 279 (Nguyén
Kim Đào 2017
)
.
—
Laurus cinnamomum
Lour.
,
Flora cochinchinensis
1: 249 (de
Loureiro 1790
)
,
nom. illeg
., non
Laurus cinnamomum
L.
TYPE
SPECIMEN. — [
Vietnam
]
Lâm Dông
:
Blao
,
11°31’43.392”N
,
107°48’7.632”E
, alt.
800 m
,
5.II.1933
,
Poilane 21854
(neo-,
P
[
P01748428
], designated here)
.
REMARKS
This species was first described as
Laurus cinnamomum
by Loureiro in his
Flora Cochinchinensis
(de
Loureiro 1790
)
. As Linnaeus had already published a species with this name, it was renamed by
Nees von Esenbeck (1836)
as
Cinnamomum loureiroi
Nees. No Loureiro
specimens could be found at the BM and P and Merrill does not mention any in his commentary on the work (
Merrill 1935
). Therefore, a
neotype
needs to be selected. The P specimen of
Poilane 21854
which fits well with the original description and has many mature infructescences and fruits (for species identification in this genus), and is therefore selected here as the
neotype
.