Rhaphiolepis bengalensis (Roxb.) B.B.Liu & J.Wen f. intermedia B.B.Liu & J.Wen, 2020

Liu, Bin-Bin, Wang, Yu-Bing, Hong, De-Yuan & Wen, Jun, 2020, A synopsis of the expanded Rhaphiolepis (Maleae, Rosaceae), PhytoKeys 154, pp. 19-55 : 19

3e. Rhaphiolepis bengalensis (Roxb.) B.B.Liu & J.Wen f. intermedia B.B.Liu & J.Wen f. nov.

≡ Eriobotrya bengalensis (Roxb.) Hook.f. f. intermedia J.E.Vidal, Adansonia, n.s. 5: 568. 1965, nom. inval. Type: Myanmar. "In thicket on the western flank of the N’Maikha-Salween divide, east of Hpimaw. Lat. 26°N, alt. 10000 feet. East Upper Burmah", April 1919, G. Forrest 17845 (holotype: E [barcode E00072976]!; isotypes: E [barcode E00072977]!, K). Région de Huê, "Bachma, Centre Vietnam, 1200 m", 21 January 1944, J.E. Vidal 35A (paratype: P [barcode P03650235]!); "Km. 13, Route de Bachma, Centre Vietnam, 1200 m", 12 March 1944, J.E. Vidal 35B (paratype: P [barcode P03650234]!); "Km. 12.5 Route de Bachma Centre Vietnam", 6 April 1944, J.E. Vidal 35C (paratype: P [barcode P03650231]!). [Note B]

Diagnosis.

A forma typica differt stylis 4 frequentioribus ( Vidal 1965).

Distribution.

Myanmar.

Note B.

Four gatherings were cited in the protologue by Vidal (1965), but none of them was not designated as type. Eriobotrya bengalensis f. intermedia was thus invalidly published (Art. 40.1: Turland et al. 2018) despite the lectotypification designated by Liu et al. (2020c) for this name. We validated Rhaphiolepis bengalensis f. intermedia as a new form by reference to designating one duplicate (E00072976) of the first gathering cited by Vidal (1965) as the holotype, and the diagnosis followed Vidal (1965).