Chionanthus thorelii (Gagnep.) Green (1996: 769)

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13. Chionanthus thorelii (Gagnep.) Green (1996: 769) . ≡ Linociera thorelii Gagnepain (1932: 788) . Gagnepain (1933: 1069), Kerr (1939: 415), Ho (2003: 886, Fig. 7567), Ly (2003: 1169), Newman et al. (2007: 249), Jin et al. (2016: 161).

TYPE: — CAMBODIA. Kpong Province [most likely Thpong District of Kampong Speu Province]: Knang Repoen mountains, 1200 m, treelet 8–10 m tall, May 1870, L. Pierre 862 (lectotype, designated here: P: P00640718 photo!; isolectotypes: A: 00105326 photo!; P: P00640719 photo!; VNM: VNM00015738!).

Images of lectotype and isolectotypes available at

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00640718

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http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00640719

= Linociera procera Kerr (1938: 131) . Kerr (1939: 413). TYPE: — THAILAND. Krat [Trat Province]: Kao Kuap [Khao Kuap mountain], evergreen forest, ca. 700 m, tree ca. 25 m high, 25 December 1929, A.F.G. Kerr 17767 (lectotype, designated by Green [1996: 769]: K: K000978792 photo!; isolectotypes: BK; BM: BM000997613 photo!; E: E00284878 photo!; L: L.2674088 photo!; P: P00640715 photo!).

Literature: — Green (2000b: 287), Toyama et al. (2013a: 101, 2013b: 192), Cho et al. (2016: 141), Jin et al. (2016: 160), Tagane et al. (2017: 484, Fig. 477), Gardner et al. (2018: 1703).

Etymology: —According to the protologue of Linociera thorelii , the species is dedicated to C. Thorel, an excellent collector who herbarized in Indochina from 1862 to 1868 ( Gagnepain 1932).

Vernacular name: —Vietnamese: Tráng Thorel.