Cinnamomum loureiroi Nees

De Kok, Rogier P. J., 2023, The Lauraceae Juss. of Indo-China: fifteen new species, four new combinations and two neotypifications, Adansonia (3) 45 (1), pp. 1-25 : 24

2. Cinnamomum loureiroi Nees

Systema Laurinarum 65 ( Nees 1836); Merr., Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 14: 164 ( Merrill 1935); Nguyén Kim Đào, Flora of Vietnam 20: 279 (Nguyén Kim Đào 2017). — Laurus cinnamomum Lour. , Flora cochinchinensis 1: 249 (de Loureiro 1790), nom. illeg., non Laurus cinnamomum L.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — [ Vietnam] Lâm Dông: Blao , 11°31’43.392”N, 107°48’7.632”E, alt. 800 m, 5.II.1933, Poilane 21854 (neo-, P [ P01748428 ], designated here) .

REMARKS

This species was first described as Laurus cinnamomum by Loureiro in his Flora Cochinchinensis (de Loureiro 1790) . As Linnaeus had already published a species with this name, it was renamed by Nees von Esenbeck (1836) as Cinnamomum loureiroi Nees. No Loureiro specimens could be found at the BM and P and Merrill does not mention any in his commentary on the work ( Merrill 1935). Therefore, a neotype needs to be selected. The P specimen of Poilane 21854 which fits well with the original description and has many mature infructescences and fruits (for species identification in this genus), and is therefore selected here as the neotype.