Garcinia indica (Thouars) Choisy

R., Arun Prasanth, Wilson, Karun & Sundaresan, Velusamy, 2019, Typification of three names in Garcinia (Clusiaceae), Rheedea 29 (4), pp. 328-330 : 329

Garcinia indica (Thouars) Choisy in DC., Prodr. 1: 561. 1824. Brindonia indica Thouars in F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. 5: 340. 1806. Lectotype (first-step designated by Maheshwari (1964); second-step designated here): INDIA, s.loc., Du-petit Thouars s.n. ( P030773 digital image!) . Epitype (designated here): INDIA, Goa, 22.5.2018, Arun Prasanth R. & V. Sundaresan 103 ( MH!) Fig. 2

Notes: Thouars (1817) published Brindonia indica Thouars. Choisy (1824) treated the taxon as Garcinia indica (Thouars) Choisy and mentioned that it is distributed in India. Maheshwari (1964) cited ‘Type: Dupetit-Thouars s.n., India (PARIS)’. We could locate two ambiguous specimens of Dupetit-Thouars’s P (P030772 and P030773). The sheet ‘P030772’ has a label by the author, fragment of stem without leaves, line drawing, male and female flowers in a packet. Whereas, sheet ‘P030773’ has label by author, fragment of stem, and packet containing male flowers. Though the locality of collection was not mentioned on the sheets, the database show that the collections were from Madagascar. Thouars (1817) while describing the taxon cited that ‘the specimen is from India and its bark was taken to France with some seeds but its survival was unsuccessful’. Moreover, Perrier (1950) have not mentioned about its occurrence in Madagascar. Maheshwari (1964), Singh (1993) and Mabberley (2017) reported distribution of G. indica as endemic to India. Based on the above citations, it can be concluded that the specimens of G. indica at P is from India and not from Madagascar. Maheshwari’s (1964) choice could be considered as first-step of lectotypification, since two sheets are available at P. Though the specimens are ambiguous, being part of original collection one of the specimens with barcode P030773 is selected here as second-step lectotype. Since the diagnostic character is fruit, the specimen collected from the type locality ‘Goa’ by Arun Prasanth R. & V. Sundaresan 103 (MH) is designated here as epitype.

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FIG. 2. LeCTOTYpe OF GaRaCINIa INdICa (THOUaRS) CHOISY (DU-peTIT THOUaRS P030773) © MUSeUM NaTIONal d’HISTOIRe NaTURelle,PaRIS.