Lectotypification of Indochinese Ebenaceae published by P. H. Lecomte (1925 - 1930) Author Meeprom, Nattanon School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG 6 6 AS (United Kingdom) and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE (United Kingdom) n.meeprom@pgr.reading.ac.uk Author Utteridge, Timothy Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE (United Kingdom) Author Culham, Alastair School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG 6 6 AS (United Kingdom) Author Puglisi, Carmen Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE (United Kingdom) text Adansonia 2022 3 2022-04-20 44 12 1925 1930 journal article 55866 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a12 aac6328a-62e8-4151-a3d8-f0bb887cc0e3 1639-4798 6483041 Diospyros embryopteris Pers. var. thirung Lecomte Flore générale de l’Indo-Chine 3 (7): 959 ( Lecomte 1930 ) . ACCEPTED NAME. — D. malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. TYPES. — Annam . Thanh Hoa. Prov., Hôi Xuân [= Vietnam . Thanh Hoa , Quan Hoa , Hoi Xuan ], 24.VIII.1920 , Poilane 1766 ( lecto- , P [ P00721581 ]!, designated here ; isolecto- , P [ P00721580 ]!) . NOTES Lecomte (1930: 959) cited Poilane collection from “ Annam : prov. de Thanh-hoa” as the original material. Among the collections made by Poilane in Thanh Hoa , two sheets of Poilane 1766 have matching local name ( Cay Thi Rung and Muong ) and morphology. Here we designated the best preserved sheet, P00721581 , as the lectotype .