Drimys intermedia, Turner, 2012

Turner, I. M., 2012, The taxa described by Paul Évariste Parmentier in Histoire des Magnoliacées, Adansonia (3) 34 (2), pp. 237-249 : 239

2. Drimys intermedia P.Parm.

Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 27:

223, 224 (1896).

REMARKS

“ Drimys intermedia sp. n. ” occurs at three places in the text but there is no formal description, no mention of specimens and the name is not included in the species list (p. 336, 337) that serves as an index. The only characters highlighted by Parmentier for Drimys intermedia are that the stem contains vessels, the leaves have stomata in the adaxial epidermis and the presence of periderm in the stem tissues (this last not being diagnostic). Drimys muelleri is described as having wood with vessels and stomata on both surfaces of the leaf lamina. One supposes that Parmentier used two names for the same species, presumably changing the epithet from “intermedia” to “muelleri” but failing to correct the mistake on two pages. Drimys intermedia is not a nomen nudum as indicated by Guymer (2007), but Parmentier’s description might be deemed inadequate to validate the name. It seems best to leave it as an uncertain name at present.