Lagerstroemia minuticarpa Debbarman ex P.C.Kanjilal

Prasanth, Arun & Sardesai, Milind M., 2024, Nomenclatural notes on type materials of fourteen names in Lythraceae, Phytotaxa 660 (3), pp. 243-258 : 253

Lagerstroemia minuticarpa Debbarman ex P.C.Kanjilal (1934: 09)

Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Birang U.S. forest, 19.10.1931, P.C. Kanjilal 9512 (ASSAM, ASSAM0000000190!) ; Paratypes:

INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh, near Bomjur , 03.12.1913, U.N. Kanjilal 3107 (ASSAM0000000187!) ; Lali nadi, Sadiya , 27.09.1931 ,

P.C. Kanjilal 9513 (ASSAM0000000188!, ASSAM0000000189!). Figure 11

Notes: —Debbarman first proposed the name L. minuticarpa (mss. hebr.) based on collections of U.N. Kanjilal 3107 housed in Shillong herbarium (ASSAM), which was later validly published by Kanjilal (1934) along with P.C. Kanjilal 9512, 9513 and G.H. Caves 6832 (CAL) collections from Assam and Sikkim respectively. We were not able to locate G.H. Cave’s collection in CAL as cited in the protologue, instead, we were able to locate three duplicates of U.N. Kanjilal 3107, but has no evidence these duplicates were consulted while describing the name. Further, the citation of P.C. Kanjilal 9513 in the protologue contradicts its collector information on the herbarium sheet where it was mentioned as ‘Collector U.N. Kanjilal’. However, according to Stafleu and Cowan (1979) period of U.N. Kanjilal is between 1859–1928, specimen 9513 was collected on 27 th September 1931, probably it’s an orthographic error in specimen identifier. Hence, here we designate P.C. Kanjilal 9512 collection (ASSAM 0000000190!) which bears a flowering twig as lectotype in accordance to Art. 9.3 ( Turland et al. 2018).

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FIGURE 11. Lectotype of Lagerstroemia minuticarpa Debbarman ex P.C.Kanjilal (ASSAM0000000190). © The Botanical Survey of India.