Chassalia curviflora (Wall.) Thwaites

Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae (2): 150 (Thwaites 1859). – Psychotria curviflora Wall. in Roxburgh, Flora indica 2: 167 (Roxburgh 1824). – Uragoga curviflora (Wall.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 299 (Kuntze 1891b). – Type: MALAYSIA • Penang; 1819; W. Jack s.n. [EIC 8360 A]; hololectotype: K-W[K 001125306]!, designated at the first step by Deb & Krishna (1983: 221) and at the second step by Turner (2019: 397).

Psychotria lurida Blume, Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 16: 959 (Blume 1826). – Zwaardekronia lurida (Blume) Korth., Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief 2 (2): 252 (Korthals 1851). – Chassalia lurida (Blume) Miq., Flora van Nederlandsch Indië 2 (2): 282 (Miquel 1857).

– Chassalia curviflora var. lurida (Blume) Hochr., Candollea 5: 270 (Hochreutiner 1934). – Type: JAVA • C.L. Blume 2270; hololectotype: L[L.2950785], designated by Turner (2019: 397).

Chassalia chartacea Craib, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Kew 1931: 279 (Craib 1931). Type: THAILAND • Surat, Yanyao; 21 Feb. 1930; A.F.G. Kerr 18175; holotype: K [K000761880]! [K001129592]! (2 sheets); isotype: BM [BM000945616] .

For a more extensive synonymy see Turner (2019).

Distribution, habitat

India to the Philippines. Lowland evergreen forest.

Remarks

Chassalia curviflora is taken here as a single widespread (India to the Philippines) and variable species. Revision of this complex was beyond the scope of the present study, and only a single entity is keyed out above for Borneo.