Nomenclatural notes on type materials of fourteen names in Lythraceae
Author
Prasanth, Arun
0000-0002-1013-1114
Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune- 411007, Maharashtra, India
aprasanthpu@gmail.com
Author
Sardesai, Milind M.
0000-0002-7802-3988
Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune- 411007, Maharashtra, India
sardesaimm@gmail.com
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Phytotaxa
2024
2024-07-23
660
3
243
258
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.660.3.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.660.3.3
1179-3163
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Ammannia multiflora
Roxburgh (1814: 11)
nom. nud.
Lectotype
(designated here):—[illustration] Roxburgh Icon. Illus. no. 915 (CAL!), digital image available at https://archive.bsi.gov.in/ botanical-details?link=712K3703R81531CL.
Figure 2
Notes:
—The name
Ammannia multiflora
was validly published by
Roxburgh (1820)
, which was proposed by him in his earlier work Hortus Bengalensis (1814) based on his collection from Kolkata (then Calcutta). The specimen with barcode K000729678 at K herbarium and illustration no. 915 from Icons Roxburghiana, kept at CAL, were the results of our search for the original specimens. Except the handwritten label “
Ammannia multiflora
,” which resembles Roxburgh’s writing when compared to
Forman (1997)
, the specimen (K000729678) at the K Herbarium does not contain any proof that it is the original specimen. Furthermore, we were unable to locate any other original specimen in any of the other herbaria (BM, BR, CAL, E, G, and LIV) indicated by
Stafleu and Cowan (1983)
. Therefore, following ICN article 9.3 (
Turland
et al
. 2018
), here we select illustration no. 915 from Roxburgh’s Icons as
lectotype
for the name
A. multiflora
.