Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindley) Hortulanorum (1826: 28)

Wang, Hua-Chen, Duan, Yi-Fan & Wang, Xian-Rong, 2015, Nomenclatural notes on Cerasus (Rosaceae) of China: Three earlier isonyms and typification of Prunus glandulosa and P. pseudocerasus, Phytotaxa 208 (3), pp. 236-238 : 237

3. Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindley) Hortulanorum (1826: 28)

Basionym:— Prunus pseudocerasus Lindley (1826: 90) .

Type:— CHINA. 1825, Unknown s.n. (holotype CGE-15886!).

Heterotypic synonyms:— Prunus involucrata Koehne (1912: 206) . Type: China. Western Hubei, cultivated around Yichang, up to 1000 m, March & May 1907, E. H. Wilson 1 (holotype A-00435618!, isotypes E-00011285!, K-000737034!).— P. pauciflora Bunge (1835: 97) . Type: CHINA. A. A. v. Bunge s.n. (holotype A-00032136!).

Isonym:— Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindley) Loudon (1830: 200) .

Notes:—As suggested by Mabberley (1984: 441), the name Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindley) Hortulanorum (1826: 28) has been neglected for more than two and half centuries, which was actually an earlier validly published name. Thus, here C. pseudocerasus (Lindley) Loudon (1830: 200) is suggested as an isonym.

When Prunus pseudocerasus Lindley (1826: 90) was published, no holotype was designated and in fact no gatherings were cited in the protologue. As Wilson (1916) suggested, the type of this species was deposited at the herbarium CGE, and the Botanical Register, tab. 800, under the name P. paniculata ( Edwards et al. 1824) , was not a figure of P. pseudocerasus as Lindley pointed out ( Lindley 1826, Wilson 1916). The only specimen under the name P. pseudocerasus Lindley deposited at CGE should be the holotype, because there are no records of there having been any other specimens under the name P. pseudocerasus , and no records of any specimen of that name being out on loan even look back through the loans documentation which is very thorough and goes back to the early 1900s (C. Bartram; pers. comm.).