Salacia floribunda Wight (1838: 134)

Jadhav, Durga C., Prabhugaonkar, Ashish V. & Nandikar, Mayur D., 2016, Nomenclature notes on the genus Salacia L. (Celastraceae) in India, Phytotaxa 265 (2), pp. 121-130 : 124

3. Salacia floribunda Wight (1838: 134)

Type:— MYANMAR, Tanintharyi Region, Mergui, s.d., Griffith , s.n. [lectotype, K ( K000687005 , image! Fig. 3 ), designated here; other syntypes: K ( K0007004 , image!), E ( E00179088 , image!), CAL! ( CAL0000007473 ), MH! (sh. no. 10323)] .

Salacia floribunda was described by Wight based on material collected from Mergui by William Griffith. In the protologue no type has been mentioned apart from ‘Mergui:- communicated by Griffith’. In total five collections by Griffith and annotated by Wight were found deposited at E, K, CAL and MH. Two collections from K matching with protologue and are presumably collected from the same locality by Griffith ; one of these is agrees protologue and designated here as lectotype ( K000687005 ), while the other is kept as syntype. Even though the specimens placed at CAL ( CAL0000007473 ), MH (sh. no 10323) and E ( E00179088 ) are collected by Griffith and annotated by Wight, they are ambiguous with protologue and kept as syntypes .

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FIGURE 3. Selected lectotype for Salacia floribunda Wight (K: Herb Griffith s.n.; K000687005).