Croton fothergillifolius Baill., Adansonia 1: 150. 1861, as 'fothergillifolium'

Berry, Paul E., Kainulainen, Kent & Ee, Benjamin W. van, 2017, A Nomenclator of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, and the Mascarene Islands, PhytoKeys 90, pp. 1-87 : 33

57. Croton fothergillifolius Baill., Adansonia 1: 150. 1861, as 'fothergillifolium'

Oxydectes fothergillifolia (Baill.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 611. 1891. Type. Based on Croton fothergillifolius Baill.

Type.

Mauritius. sin. loc., L.M.A. Du Petit-Thouars s.n. (lectotype, designated here: P [P00404184]!; isolectotype: P [P00404183]!) .

Habit and distribution.

Shrubs; Mauritius.

Notes.

Bojer (1837) listed a plant from the Grand Bassin of Mauritius as Croton muricatus Vahl, a native Malagasy species. Based on this, the name " C. muricatus Bojer, nom. nud." has been included in several indices, including IPNI, Tropicos, and Govaerts et al. (2000). In the same manner as Leandri (1939), we interpret Bojer (1837) as a misidentification of what Baillon (1861) later described as C. fothergillifolius , rather than the publication of a nomen nudum.