Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China Author Lin, Yun 0000-0002-4607-2435 Hunan Medication Vestibule School, Changsha 410208, Hunan, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4607 - 2435, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3614 - 8336 Author Bi, Hai-Yan 0000-0002-3614-8336 Department of Life Sciences, National Natural History Museum of China, Beijing 100050, China Author Sun, Jun 0000-0002-8461-969X Xiangzhong Normal College for Preschool Education, Shaoyang 422000, Hunan, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8461 - 969 X, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7086 - 7609 Author Sun, Qian 0000-0002-7086-7609 School of Health and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, Guangdong, China Correspondence: sunqian 2 @ sztu. edu. cn text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-05-29 598 4 271 282 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.598.4.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.598.4.1 1179-3163 7983799 58. Taraktogenos hainanensis Merr. ( Flacourtiaceae ) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 255. 1923 . TYPE:— CHINA . Hainan : Shuimen , 15 May 1922 , F. A. McClure 3084 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 9636) ( syntype : PNH , destroyed, A 00066951 image!, A 00066952 image!, NY 00108168 image!) . The name Taraktogenos hainanensis Merr. was validly published with a single gathering “ McClure 9636 ” cited in the protologue ( Merrill, 1923 ). However, on the label of the syntype specimen (A 00066951), the collecting number is 3084 and the herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 9636. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the protologue is to be corrected.