Salacia verrucosa 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 : 129

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.265.2.3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13662596
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scientific name	Salacia verrucosa Wight (1838: 134)
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8. Salacia verrucosa Wight (1838: 134) View in CoL

Type:— MYANMAR, Tanintharyi Region, Mergui, s.d. Griffifth s.n. [lectotype, K ( K000669978 , image! Fig. 8), designated here] ; syntypes: ibid. s.d., Griffith 977 E ( E00179087 , image!) ; ibid. s.d. Griffith 888 CAL! ( CAL0000007475 About CAL ) ; ibid. s.d. Griffith s.n. MH! (sh. no. 64769) .

Salacia verrucosa was described by Wight (1838) based on material by William Griffith from Mergui, Myanmar. In the protologue no type has been given apart from ‘Mergui- communicated by Griffith’. Four specimens were found at CAL, E, K and MH collected by Griffith and annotated by Wight. Specimen placed at K ( K 000669978), which best matches with the protologue, is designated here as lectotype, whilst the remaining at E, Griffith 977 ( E 00179087), at CAL, Griffith 888 ( CAL 0000007475) and Griffith s.n. ( MH, sh. no. 64769) as syntypes.