Diospyros communis Doweld, 2017

Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, Actinodaphne notabilis, Berberis yingii, Diospyros communis, Rosa miopannonica, and Symplocos ecuadorica, new replacement names for the homonyms of fossils, Phytotaxa 329 (2), pp. 180-184 : 181

Diospyros communis Doweld , nom. nov.

≡ Diospyros dubia Göppert (1854: 47 , pl. 12, fig. 72), nom. illeg. non Wallich ex De Candolle (1844: 223) (ICN, Art. 53.1).

Type:— INDONESIA. Java Island, Pesawahan (Djampang kulon, Tjandjur, Preangan), Junghuhn 353 (holotype, RGM 11840, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands).

Stratigraphy:—Tertiary (Pleistocene?).

IFPNI registration lsid:— 4CED646C-C6DC-405F-8923-4F8EF9ACF753

Eponymy:—Named for the common Diospyros -like venation.

Notes:— Göppert (1854) described D. dubia from the Tertiary (?Pleistocene) sediments of Pesawahan, Java Island, now Indonesia, based on a single fossil leaf imprint showing typical secondary venation of the Diospyros - type. It was compared with the extant species D. virginiana Linnaeus (1753: 1057) and the fossil-species D. pannonica Ettingshausen (1851: 19) from the Miocene sediments near Vienna, Austria. However, D. dubia Göppert , having no heterotypic synonyms, is a later homonym (Art. 53.1 of the ICN, McNeill & al. 2012) of Diospyros dubia Wallich ex de Candolle (1844: 223) .