Salix rhododendroides C. Wang & C.Y. Yu

He, Li, Liao, Shuai, Chen, Shi-Pin & Zhang, Zhi-Xiang, 2016, Nomenclatural notes of Salix wangiana and S. zangica var. tibetica (Salicaceae), Phytotaxa 245 (1), pp. 71-74 : 71-73

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.245.1.8

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Salix rhododendroides C. Wang & C.Y. Yu
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Salix rhododendroides C. Wang & C.Y. Yu View in CoL in Anonymous (1974: 598)

Type:— CHINA. Shaanxi: Taibai Mountain , 2840 m, 9 July 1957, K. J. Fu 9509 (lectotype, designated here: WUK 171975 About WUK !; isolectotype WUK 90140 About WUK !, digital image examined; [♀]).—For image of lectotype, see Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 .

= S. wangiana K.S. Hao ex C.F. Fang & A.K. Skvortsov (1998: 469) , syn. nov. — S. wangiana K.S. Hao (1936: 81) , nom. inval. Type:— CHINA. Shaanxi: Taibai Mountain, 2700 m, 4 August 1933, T. P. Wang 1769 (holotype PE [barcode] 00766307!; isotypes IBSC [barcode] 0349187!, WUK 00438 About WUK ! [♀]).—For image of holotype, see Fig. 1B View FIGURE 1 .

Salix wangiana K.S. Hao was not validly published, with an English description instead of the Latin description or diagnosis, which was obligatory between 1 January 1935 and 31 December 2011, according to Art. 39.1 of the ICN (Melbourne Code, McNeill et al. 2012). It was subsequently validated by Fang & Skvortsov (1998), who referenced Hao’s protologue and provided a Latin description.

Fang & Skvortsov (1998) stated that the holotype of Salix wangiana is located in Paris ( P). However, the type information in Hao’s (1936) protologue is “ T. P. Wang 1769 (type in Herb. Peiping)”. “Herb. Peiping” is the predecessor of PE, and a duplicate of T. P. Wang 1769 is found there ( PE [barcode] 00766307) with a written label in Hao’s hand, which reads “ Salix wangiana Hao n. sp. ”. In addition, T. P. Wang 1769 was not located at P (according to the digital herbarium database of P, https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/search/form [accessed 6 November 2015]). Therefore, we deduce that Fang & Skvortsov’s reference to “ P ” may be a printing error, which should be corrected to PE, and the sheet of T. P. Wang 1769 at PE should be Fang & Skvortsov’s holotype.

Salix rhododendroides was described by Wang & Yu in 1974, who cited K. J. Fu 9509 as the type but did not state where the type specimens were conserved. Two duplicates of K. J. Fu 9509 were found in WUK ( WUK 171975 About WUK & 90140) ; WUK 171975 About WUK with a written label in Yu’s hand on 10 February 1966 was annotated as “ Salix rhododendroides Wang et Yu sp. nov. ”, which is designated here as the lectotype under Art. 9.11 of the ICN .

Chou et al. (1984) accepted “ Salix wangiana K.S. Hao ”, and reduced S. rhododendroides to a synonym, neglecting that S. wangiana had not been validly published at that time. In addition, this treatment was followed by that of Fang et al. (1999), who cited S. rhododendroides as a synonym of S. wangiana K.S. Hao ex C.F. Fang & A.K. Skvortsov in Flora of China. However, the name S. rhododendroides is the earlier name compared to S. wangiana . After examining the type specimens of S. rhododendroides and S. wangiana , we could not find relevant differences between these, and we followed Chou et al. (1984) in considering both names as conspecific. Therefore, the correct name of this species is S. rhododendroides , and S. wangiana is its synonym.

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

J

University of the Witwatersrand

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

PE

Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

IBSC

South China Botanical Garden

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

WUK

Northwestern Institute of Botany

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Salicaceae

Genus

Salix

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Salix rhododendroides C. Wang & C.Y. Yu

He, Li, Liao, Shuai, Chen, Shi-Pin & Zhang, Zhi-Xiang 2016
2016
Loc

Salix rhododendroides C. Wang & C.Y. Yu

Anonymous 1974: 598
1974
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