Notes on the identity of Persea haridasanii (Lauraceae) with typification of Machilus robusta Author Chakrabarty, Tapas 4, Botanical Garden Lane, Howrah - 711 103, West Bengal, India. Author Rawat, Vineet Kumar 0000-0002-6828-5108 Botanical Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Sankie View, Itanagar - 791 111, Arunachal Pradesh, India. rawat _ vk 2107 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6828 - 5108 rawat_vk2107@rediffmail.com Author Kumar, Anand 0000-0002-8364-3989 Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah - 711 103, West Bengal, India. anand _ kum 234 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8364 - 3989 anand_kum234@rediffmail.com Author Ghoshal, Partha Pratim 0000-0002-8364-3989 Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah - 711 103, West Bengal, India. anand _ kum 234 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8364 - 3989 anand_kum234@rediffmail.com text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-11-01 571 1 99 102 journal article 178570 10.11646/phytotaxa.571.1.10 af86d770-b86c-469b-96a2-b36a14876a84 1179-3163 7270402 Machilus robusta Smith (1921: 169) . Type:— CHINA . Yunnan , hills to the northeast of Tengyueh , March 1913 , G. Forrest 9716 ( lectotype designated here, E00123812 , digital image!, Fig. 1 ; isolectotypes, A00041882, K000778788, digital images!) . Additional syntypes :— CHINA , Yunnan , Shweli valley , February 1913 , G. Forrest 9594 ( A00112551 , E00123816 , K000778789 , digital images!) . CHINA . Yunnan , Shweli-Salween divide, February 1914 , G. Forrest 12216 ( E00123817 , K000778787 , digital images!) . CHINA , Yunnan , Shweli-Salween divide, August 1917 , G. Forrest 15753 ( E00123814 [wrongly databased as ‘15758’], K000778790 , digital images!) . Homotypic synonym:— Persea robusta (W.W.Sm.) Kostermans (1962: 193) . Heterotypic synonyms:— Machilus haridasanii (M.Gangop.) Gangopadhyay (2020: 444) , syn. nov. Type :— INDIA . Arunachal Pradesh , Dibang valley district, Anini , 30 March 1984 , K . Haridasan 601 ( holotype , Herbarium of State Forest Research Institute , Arunachal Pradesh , Itanagar!, Fig. 2 ). INDIA . Arunachal Pradesh , Kameng district , Saiden to Jirigoon, 4 February 1995 , K . P . Singh BSI-99369 ( paratype , ASSAM 0000000115, image!) . Basionym:— Persea haridasanii Gangopadhyay (2006: 133) . Machilus haridasanii (M.Gangop.) Kumar (2020: 30) , nom. illegit.