Typification of Angiospermae described from the Bonin Islands 2: Archichlamydeae
Author
Ohi-Toma, Tetsuo
Botanical Gardens and Herbarium TI, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 112 - 0001, Japan;
Author
Watanabe-Toma, Kana
Botanical Gardens and Herbarium TI, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 112 - 0001, Japan; & Musashi High School and Junior High School, Tokyo 176 - 8535, Japan.
Author
Murata, Jin
Botanical Gardens and Herbarium TI, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 112 - 0001, Japan;
text
Phytotaxa
2015
2015-09-18
227
1
35
44
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.227.1.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.227.1.4
1179-3163
13635235
Celtis boninensis
Koidzumi (1913: 183)
≡
C. koidzumii
Nakai (1914a: 265)
,
nom. illeg. superfl.
(Art. 52.1 of the
ICN
)
Type
(
lectotype
, designated here):—
JAPAN
. Bonin, without date,
K
. Kawate s.n.
(
TI
[00144]!).
Additional specimens examined
:—
JAPAN
.
Bonin
, without date,
K
.
Kawate
s.n.
(
TI
[00145]!)
; Bonin: Ototojima,
1 July 1901
(
Meiji 34th
),
N. Kanehara s.n.
(TI [00146]!); Ryukyu:
Okinawa
, without date,
J. Matsumura s.n.
(TI [00006740]!); Ryukyu:
Okinawa
, without date,
T.
Miyagi
s.n.
(TI [00006741]!); Ryukyu: Amami-oshima, without date,
S. Amashima s.n.
(TI [00006742]! TI [00006743]!).
=
Celtis liukiuensis
Nakai (1914a: 265)
Type
(
lectotype
, designated here):—
JAPAN
. Ryukyu:
Okinawa
, without date,
Matsumura s.n.
(
TI
[00006740]!).
Additional specimens examined
:—
JAPAN
. Ryukyu:
Okinawa
, without date,
T
.
Miyagi
s.n.
(
TI
[00006741]!); Ryukyu: Amami-oshima, without date,
S
. Amashima s.n.
(
TI
[00006742]!,
TI
[00006743]!).
Distribution
:—
Japan
(the Bonin Islands and the Ryukyu Islands).
Notes
:—In the protologue of
Celtis boninensis
,
Koidzumi (1913)
indicated “Hab. Bonin. Liukiu, insl.
Okinawa
” but cited no specimens.
Nakai (1914a)
divided the taxon into two different taxa and renamed both of them with descriptions in Japanese:
C. koidzumii
Nakai
for plants in the Bonin Islands and
C. liukiuensis
Nakai
for plants in the Ryukyu (= Liukiu) Islands. In it, however, no specimens were cited for the two names.
Masamune (1934)
described
C. boninensis
in the Flora of Yakushima Island, but did not mention the type specimen. In TI, a total of seven sheets with Koidzumi’s handwriting of “
Celtis boninensis
Koidz.
,” including three from Bonin and four from Ryukyu, should be regarded as the original material of
C. boninensis
.
Toyoda (1981)
recognized the specimen (
K. Kawate s.n.
, 1913, without locality) in TI as the type of
C. boninensis
. Of the original material, we confirmed only two of Kawate’s specimens from Bonin: one with mature leaves (TI [00144]) and the other with young leaves and flowers (TI [00145]). Because these specimens lacked a collecting year, the lectotypification in
Toyoda (1981)
seems to be a correctable error. We designated the former of Kawate’s
two specimens
(Bonin,
K. Kawate s.n.
, without date; TI [00144]) as the
lectotype
, because the diagnosis in the protologue (
Koidzumi, 1913
) emphasized leaf morphology.
Herein, when
Nakai (1914a)
published
C. koidzumii
Nakai
, he commented in Japanese that the name is a replacement for “
C. boninensis
Koidz.
pro parte,” which is equivalent to plants in the Bonin Islands. Of the original material of
C. boninensis
, three from the Bonin Islands additionally had “
p.p.
” (= pro parte) and “
Celtis koidzumii
Nakai
” written on the label in Nakai’s handwriting. The
three specimens
are also regarded as the original material of
C. koidzumii
. Thus,
C. koidzumii
is a superfluous replacement name for
C. boninensis
(Art. 52.1 of the ICN,
McNeill
et al.
2012
).
In addition,
Nakai (1914a)
published
C. liukiuensis
Nakai
for “
C. boninensis
Koidz.
pro parte,” which is equivalent to plants in the Ryukyu Islands, as a new taxon with a description in Japanese, but he cited no specimens. Later,
Hatusima (1971)
,
Masamune (1954)
, and
Walker (1976)
listed or described
C. boninensis
Koidzumi
in their books on the flora of the Ryukyu Islands, but they did not mention the type specimens. Of the original material of
C. boninensis
, four sheets from the Ryukyu Islands additionally had “
p.p.
” (= pro parte) and “
Celtis liukiuensis
Nakai
” written on the label in Nakai’s handwriting. Thus, the specimens were also the original material of
C. liukiuensis
, and we designated the specimen with “Regard as
Type
” in old Japanese handwriting (
J. Matsumura s.n.
; TI [00006740]!) as the
lectotype
.