Mallotus roxburghianus Müll.Arg., Linnaea

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 67

Mallotus roxburghianus Müll.Arg., Linnaea 34: 186 (1865). – Rottlera peltata Roxb., Fl. Ind.

3: 828 (1832). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotype BM [ BM000951480 ], designated by Chakrabarty, Ann. Pl. Sci. 8(10): 3643 [2019]) .

Müller Argentius renamed Rottlera peltata Roxb. as Mallotus roxburghianus Müll.Arg. This name is legitimate because Müller Argentius used Mallotus peltatus for a different species in the same publication.

Manilkara roxburghiana (Wight) Dubard, Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille Sér. 3, 3: 10 (1915). – Mimusops roxburghiana Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4(4): 13, t. 1588 (1850). – Kaukenia roxburghiana (Wight) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 406 (1891). – Type: India, Ayamallay, iii 1849, R. Wight s.n. [Kew Distribution no. 1740] (lectotype K [K000229513], restricting choice to the flowering shoot mounted centre left, designated at the first step by Van Royen, Blumea 7: 409 [1953], and at the second step here).

As noted by Noltie (2005), there is a sheet in K bearing two original tickets. One stating ‘Iamalay May 1848 ’ and the other ‘Ayamallay March 1849 ’, making it seem likely that the sheet bears material from more than one gathering. Van Royen (1953) did not explicitly state whether he was accepting all the material on the sheet as type, so a second step is made here to restrict the type to one of the flowering shoots on the sheet. As the protologue states that the species flowers in March to April, I assume the selected type corresponds to the March 1849 collection. Armstrong (2013) first proposed the narrowing of the lectotype selection to one flowering shoot on the sheet, but as no ‘hic designatus’ or equivalent was stated in the second-step typification, it was not effective.

Melicope lunu-ankenda (Gaertn.) T.Hartley, Sandakania 4: 61 (1994). – Fagara lunu-ankenda Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 334, t. 68, f. 9 (1788). – Type : Ceylon, J.G. Koenig s.n. (lectotype L [carpological collection], designated by Hartley, Sandakania 4: 61 [1994]).

Fagara triphylla Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 436 (1820), nom. illegit., non F. triphylla Lam. (1788) , nec F. triphylla Lour. (1790) . – Zanthoxylum roxburghianum Cham., Linnaea 5: 58 (1830). – Euodia roxburghiana (Cham.) Benth., Fl. Hongk. 59 (1861). – Ampacus roxburghiana (Cham.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 98 (1891). – Euodia lepta var. roxburghiana (Cham.) M.Hiroe, Forest Pl. Hist. Jap. Islands 1: 191 (1974). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2034 (lectotype K, designated here).

Zanthoxylum roxburghianum Cham. is a nomen novum for Roxburgh’s later homonym Fagara triphylla . As no Roxburgh herbarium material has been located for this name, Roxburgh’s drawing is here designated as lectotype.