29a. Carpinus polyneura Franch. var. polyneura

C. handelii Rehder, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 1: 59 (Rehder 1919). – Type: China, Hunan, inter urbes Linling (Yungchoufu) e Sinning in silvis collium supra vicum Tjentiesse, 400 m a.s.l., 14 Aug. 1917, H.R.E. von Handel-Mazzetti 421 (holo-: A00033754!; iso-: WU 30926!). – Type: China, Hunan, in silva infra Tungdjiapai prope minas Hsikwangchan, dist. Hsinhwa, 550 m a.s.l., 20 May 1918, H.R.E. von Handel-Mazzetti 11884 [“ 534 ”] (para-: E!, P06811414!, WU 30927!). – Note: this name is listed as a synonym of C. polyneura in the World Checklist (Govaerts & Frodin 1998), in the Flora of China (Li & Skvortsov 1999), and in the Flora Sichuanica (Editorial Board of the Flora Sichuanica 2012). Rehder cites the type as “ 421 ”, which is a crossed-out number written with a pencil only on the specimen in A. It is therefore the specimen that Rehder explicitly cited and type, as the WU duplicate does not contain that number.

C. polyneura var. glandulosopunctata C.J.Qi, Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 22 (6): 494 (Qi 1984). – C. glandulosopunctata (C.J.Qi) C.J.Qi, Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 20 (1): 3 (Lin & Qi 2000) [“glanduloso-punctata”]. – Type: China, Hunan, Ningxiang, on hillside, 200 m a.s.l., 10 Oct. 1982, Y.T. Xiao [Xiao Yu-tan] 40004 (holo-: CSFI; iso-: PE). – Note: this name is listed as a synonym of C. polyneura in the World Checklist (Govaerts & Frodin 1998), but it is not mentioned otherwise.

C. polyneura var. wilsoniana H.J.P.Winkl., Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 50 (Suppl.): 506 (Winkler 1914). – Type: China, [Sichuan,] am Berge Omi [Éméi Shān], May 1904, E.H. Wilson 5791 (lecto-, designated here: K000859929!; isolecto-: A00033763!, BM!). – Additional type material: China, Hupeh, E.H. Wilson 1170 p.p. (syn-: W). – Note: This name is mentioned neither in the World Checklist (Govaerts & Frodin 1998) nor in the Flora of China (Li & Skvortsov 1999) nor in the Flora Sichuanica (Editorial Board of the Flora Sichuanica 2012).