Lectotypification of 11 names of Eurya (Pentaphylacaceae) for the Flora of China
Author
Ji, Chun-Feng
Key Laboratory for Resources and Utilization of Bamboos in Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Agricultural University and College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330045, P. R. China.
Author
Zhang, Li-Bing
Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166 - 0299, U. S. A. and Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China.
text
Phytotaxa
2016
2016-07-29
269
1
61
64
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.269.1.9
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.269.1.9
1179-3163
13651759
2.
Eurya longistyla
Hung T.
Chang (1954: 53)
.
Type
:—
CHINA
.
Guangxi
:
S
.
E
. of
Shang-sze district
[Shangsi],
Kwangtung
border, Shap-Man-Taai-Shan [Shiwanda Shan], steep slope, silt, sandy soil, rocky, swamp, thicket, abundant, shrub,
2 feet
high, fruit blue-black,
Huai-De
Zeng
22373
(
lectotype
IBSC-0003648!,
here designated
;
isolectotype
IBK-00190530!).
Remaining
syntype
:—
CHINA
.
Guangxi
:
Qinxian
,
Shiwanda Shan
,
Guidong Xiang
,
Maduo Shan
,
300–600 m
, streamside of a valley, in sparse forest, abundant, shrub,
1m
high, flower ale white,
22 Dec. 1943
,
Shao-Qing Chen 4109
(IBSC-0003649!)
.
Two gatherings,
Huai-De Zeng 22373
and
Shao-Qing Chen 4109
, were designated as male and female “type” in Chinese, respectively, in the protologue (
Chang 1954
). The one we designate as the
lectotype
is in good conditions and has numerous flowers in the paper bag attached to the sheet. This species was originally described from
Guangxi
. It is treated as a synonym of
Eurya stenophylla
Merrill (1922: 502)
var.
stenophylla
by
Ming & Bartholomew (2007)
.