Eugenia uniflora Linnaeus (1753: 470)

Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2024, Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Eugenia (Myrtaceae) from India, Phytotaxa 638 (3), pp. 268-276 : 272

Eugenia uniflora Linnaeus (1753: 470) .

Lectotype (designated by McVaugh 1956):—“Illustration” Nov. Pl. Gen. 226, t. 108. (Micheli 1729).

= Eugenia subcordata Wight & Arnott (1834: 331) . Eugenia uniflora Linnaeus var. subcordata (Wight & Arnott) Duthie (1879: 505) .

Type citation in protologue:—“ Wight!cat. n. 1077”.

Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Peninsular India: Without locality, s.d., R. Wight 1075 (K000821522 [digital image!]; isolectotype E00174631 [digital image!]).

= Eugenia zeylanica Willdenow (1799: 963) .

Holotype: SRI LANKA. Without locality, s.d., C.P. Thunberg s.n. (B-W09505-010 [digital image!]).

Notes:—The specimen K000821522 is well preserved, has mature leaves, well developed flowers and therefore selected here as the lectotype for the name Eugenia subcordata Wight , as it agrees well with the protologue. Govaerts et al. (2008) and WCSP (2023) treated E. subcordata as an accepted species, but in Indian floras ( Chithra 1983, Rathakrishnan 2016, 2020, Shareef & Kumar 2020) it is treated as a synonym of E. uniflora . After study of the description and type specimens of E. subcordata , Icouldn’t find any significant differences from E. uniflora . All the characters of E. subcordata given in the protologue lie within the range of E. uniflora .