Albizia myriophylla Benth., London J. Bot.

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Albizia myriophylla Benth., London J. Bot. 3: 90 (1844). – Type: Silhet, iv 1829, W. Gomez

s.n. [ EIC 5242 A] (lectotype K-W [ K001120254 ], designated by Nielsen, Adansonia, n.s., 19: 227 [1979]) .

Mimosa microphylla Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 549 (1832), nom. illegit., non M. microphylla Dryand. ex Sm. (1797) , nec M. microphylla Poir. (1810) . – Acacia roxburghii Kostel., Allg. Med. -Pharm. Fl. 4: 1367 (1835), nom. illegit., non A. roxburghii Wight & Arn. (1834) . – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype BM, designated by Nielsen, Adansonia, n.s., 19: 227 [1979]).

Kosteletzky provided Acacia roxburghii as a replacement for Roxburgh’s Mimosa microphylla , but Wight and Arnott had already published this binomial for another species (see below under Vachellia eburnea ).

Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth., London J. Bot. 3: 89 (1844). – Mimosa procera Roxb., Pl. Coromandel 2: 12–13, t. 121 (1799). – Type: [published illustration] ‘ Mimosa procera’, Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel 2: t. 131 (1799) (lectotype designated by Nielsen, Adansonia, n.s., 19: 223 [1979]).

Mimosa elata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 546 (1832). – Acacia procera (Roxb.) Willd. var. roxburghiana E.Fourn., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., Ser. 4, 15: 164 (1861). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype K [ K000800890 ], designated here).

Eugène Fournier considered Mimosa elata to be a variety of Acacia procera and used the ‘roxburghiana’ epithet for the variety, as is allowed (ICN Article 6; Turland et al., 2018).

Alfaropsis roxburghiana (Lindl.) Iljinsk., Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 78(10): 81 (1993). – Engelhardia roxburghiana Lindl. in Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 85, t. 199 (1831), as ‘Engelhardtia’. – Alfaroa roxburghiana (Wall.) Iljinsk., Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 75(6): 796 (1990). – Type: [published illustration] Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: t. 199 (1831), excluding the fruit (lectotype designated by Manning, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 93: 50 [1966]).

The genus Alfaropsis Iljinsk. was established for Engelhardia roxburghiana . This split-off Engelhardia did not find much favour until the study of Manos et al. (2007), who showed that both molecular and morphological analyses supported the placement of Alfaropsis as sister to the Neotropical clade Alfaroa plus Oreomunnea rather than Engelhardia .