Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 63

Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 1: 19 (1810). – Type: Hort. Kew, 1806, Anon. s.n.

(lectotype BM, designated here, restricting choice to the shoot bearing two inflorescences mounted centrally). Figure 11 .

Phillyrea paniculata Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 100–101 (1820). – Ligustrum roxburghii Blume, Mus. Bot. 1(20): 315 (1851), nom. illegit., superfl. – Ligustrum japonicum var. roxburghii Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 1: 128 (1889). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 1309 (lectotype K, designated here).

Ligustrum roxburghii Blume is a superfluous renaming of Phillyrea paniculata Roxb. A sheet in BM is indicated by annotations on the reverse to bear specimens from Kew Gardens and from William Roxburgh in the Calcutta Gardens. The numbers on the sheet at the base of two portions of material indicate the Kew collection, and to avoid further complications the large central flowering shoot labelled ‘1’ is here selected as lectotype of Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton.

Ligustrum robustum subsp. perrottetii (A.DC.) de Juana, Bouteloua 24: 152 (2016). – Ligustrum perrottetii A.DC. in de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 294 (1844). – Type: 1840, Perrottet s.n. (holotype G-DC [ G00143205 ]).

Ligustrum candolleanum Blume, Mus. Bot. 1(20): 315 (1851). – Ligustrum roxburghii C.B.Clarke in Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 3(9): 615 (1882), nom. illegit., superfl., non L. roxburghii Blume (1851) . – Type: India, Dindyghul, R. Wight s.n. [EIC 2816E] (lectotype L [L.2678071], designated by Green, Kew Bull. 45: 693 [1990]; isolectotypes E [E00288503], K [K000979259, K000979260], K-W [K001117177], S [S09-37368, S09-37377]).

Ligustrum roxburghii C.B.Clarke is illegitimate both as a superfluous renaming of L. candolleanum A.DC. and as a later homonym. Ramamoorthy (1976) and Raizada & Saxena (1978) attempted to provide new names for Ligustrum roxburghii C.B.Clarke , although this is unnecessary. However, Phillyrea robusta Roxb. was cited as a synonym of both Ligustrum gamblei Ramamoorthy and Ligustrum minii Raizada & H.O.Saxena , making both superfluous and illegitimate (ICN Article 52; Turland et al., 2018). Although in both cases Ligustrum roxburghii C.B.Clarke was the first cited synonym after the nomen novum, it is not clear that the authors were definitely designating or indicating a different type from that of Phillyrea robusta Roxb. (ICN Article 7.5; Turland et al., 2018). A citation of Ligustrum robustum (Roxb.) Blume , with homotypic synonyms is given below.

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Figure 11. Sheet bearing the lectotype of Ligustrum lucidum W.T.Aiton from the herbarium of the Natural History Museum (BM). Inset top centre: annotations from back of sheet. © Natural History Museum, London.