FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH
Author
Turner, Ian M.
text
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
2022
2022-12-14
79
1911
1
102
http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2022.1911
journal article
10.24823/EJB.2022.1911
1747-0036
Ziziphus rugosa
Lam., Encycl.
3(1): 319 (1789). – Type:
P. Sonnerat s.n.
(
lectotype
P-LA
[IDC6207 LM-127/8], designated by Turner, Taxon 70: 424 [2021]).
Ziziphus tomentosa
Roxb., Fl. Ind.
2: 360 (1824)
, nom. illegit., non
Z. tomentosa
Poir. (1813)
. –
Ziziphus roxburghiana
Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt.
146 (1845). –
Type
: not traced.
Ziziphus roxburghiana
Voigt
represents a replacement name for Roxburgh’s later homonym.
I have not traced any original material for
Ziziphus tomentosa
Roxb.
, so leave the typification open.
In addition to the above, three species of fungi and a fig wasp are indirectly named after Roxburgh because they have epithets reflecting the reported host plant, which was then named after Roxburgh. These are, with host species in parentheses:
Aplosporella roxburghii
Tassi
, as ‘
Haplosporella
’ (
Chavica roxburghii
)
Cercospora roxburghii
Purkay. & Mallik
(
Carum roxburghii
)
Multifurca roxburghii
Buyck & V.Hofst.
(
Pinus roxburghii
)
Sycoscapter
roxburghi
(Joseph) syn.
Sycoryctes
roxburghi
Joseph (
Ficus roxburghii
).