Nothopegia racemosa ( Dalzell 1850: 39 ) Ramamoorthy (1976: 377)

Deepu, S., Geethakumary, M. P. & Pandurangan, A. G., 2018, Studies Of The Types Of Various Names In The Genus Nothopegia Blume (Anacardiaceae), Phytotaxa 376 (3), pp. 150-153 : 151

3. Nothopegia racemosa ( Dalzell 1850: 39) Ramamoorthy (1976: 377)

Nothopegia dalzellii Gamble (1918: 265) (nom. superfl.) = Glycycarpus racemosa Dalzell (1850: 39)

Type citation:— “Crescit raro in Concano australi”

Type:— INDIA. Mumbai (Bombay), s.d., Dalzell s.n. (lectotype K!, first-step designated by Matthew [1991: 543]; second-step K000695601 !, designated here; isolectotypes K000695602 !, K000695603 ! and NY00050775 !)

Notes:— Dalzell (1849: 71) published Glycycarpus , as a monotypic genus, with G. edulis Dalzell as its single species. Without reference to his 1849 work, Dalzell (1850: 38) published Glycycarpus again as a new monotypic genus, but this time named its single species G. racemosa . He cited southern Goa (“Concano australi”) for the locality, with flowers in February and fruit in April; in 1849, he had reported the source localities as “Mahableshwur” and the “Goa jungles”. In his subsequent work ‘The Bombay Flora’ ( Dalzell & Gibson, 1861), Dalzell abandoned the earlier name Glycycarpus edulis and used the later G. racemosa . As the epithet “ edulis ” had been completely abandoned, G. edulis was proposed for outright rejection (Gandhi et al., 2000: 583) and this was accepted (see e.g. Wiersema et al., 2015: 434), permitting the continued use of N. racemosa . J. D. Hooker (1876) and T. Cooke (1901) listed G. racemosa as a synonym of Nothopegia colebrookiana (Wight) Blume. In contrast, Gamble (1918) recognised G. racemosa Dalzell but renamed it as N. dalzellii (nom. superfl.). Ramamoorthy (1976) published a new combination N. racemosa based on G. racemosa and treated N. dalzellii as its synonym. While doing so, he had not mentioned anything about the type of this species. While searching for the specimens of G. racemosa in Dalzell’s collection we were able to trace 3 specimens at K and one at NY. Matthew (1991) in his precursory notes for the Flora of Pulney hills had noted “ N. dalzellii Gamble , 1.c. Type: Dalzell s.n. ( K)”. The choice of Mathew (1991: 543) at K, made before 1st January 2001, has to be accepted as the first-step lectotype as it cannot be ascertained which of the 3 duplicate specimens at K was selected by them as lectotype. Thus, a second-step lectotype has to be designated following Art. 9.17. Of the four specimens, one at K ( K 000695601!) bears Dalzell’s annotation, including his critical remarks, which were given in the protologue and is here selected as the lectotype. This sheet also bears the determination of J. S. Gamble. As per Art. 7.3., Nothopegia racemosa (Dalzell) Ramamoorthy is automatically typified by the type of its basionym.