Mussaenda roxburghii Hook.f., Fl. Brit.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 69-70

Mussaenda roxburghii Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3(7): 87 (1880). – Type: Sylhet, ix 1828,

W. Gomez & F. De Silva 65 [ EIC 6252 C] (lectotype K-W [ K000677299 ], designated by Jayaweera, J. Arnold Arbor . 44: 253 [1963]) .

Musaenda roxburghii Hook.f. is the accepted name of the species.

Nauclea orientalis (L.) L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 243 (1762). – Cephalanthus orientalis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 95 (1753). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Herb. Hermann 5: 338, No. 53 (lectotype BM, designated by Merrill , J. Washington Acad. Sci. 5: 533 [1915]) .

Nauclea roxburghii G.Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 469 (1834). – Type: W. Roxburgh s.n. [ EIC 6090 D) (lectotype K-W [ K001122991 ], designated by Ridsdale, Blumea 26: 328 [1978]).

Nauclea roxburghii G.Don is considered a synonym of Nauclea orientalis (L.) L.

Nechamandra alternifolia (Roxb. ex Wight) Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 332 (1864). – Vallisneria alternifolia Roxb. ex Wight, Bot. Misc. 2: 344, t. 11 (1831). – Nechamandra roxburghii Planch., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., Sér. 3, 11: 78 (1849), as ‘Roxburgii’, nom. illegit., superfl. – Lagarosiphon roxburghii Benth., Gen. Pl. 3(2): 451 (1883), nom. illegit., superfl. – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 996 (lectotype K, designated by Cook & Lüönd, Aquatic Bot. 13: 506 [1982]).

Planchon’s Nechamandra roxburghii is a superfluous renaming of Vallisneria alternifolia Roxb. ex Wight.

Nitella furcata f. roxburghii (A.Braun) R.D.Wood in Wood & Imahori, Rev. Charac. 482 (1965). – Nitella roxburghii A.Braun , Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 293 (1849). – Nitella polyglochin var. roxburghii (A.Braun) A.Braun in Braun & Nordstedt, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1882: 73 (1882). – Nitella furcata var. roxburghii (A.Braun) Zaneveld, Blumea 4: 92 (1940). – Type: India, on the coast of Coromandel near Madras, R. Wight 135 (syntype); R. Wight 136 (syntype).

Braun named this Indian stonewort after Roxburgh.

Nymphanthus roxburghii R.W.Bouman, Phytotaxa 540: 23 (2022). – Phyllanthus tetrandrus Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 674 (1832). – Epistylium roxburghii Baill., Étude Euphorb. 648 (1858), nom. illegit., superfl. – Phyllanthus roxburghianus Müll.Arg., Linnaea 32(1): 47 (1863), nom. illegit., superfl. – Diasperus roxburghii Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 600 (1891). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2396 (lectotype CAL, designated by Chakrabarty & Balakrishnan, Indo-Burmese Phyllanthaceae 295 [2018]).

Baillon and Müller Argentius both published superfluous names for Phyllanthus tetrandrus Roxb. honouring Roxburgh. Kuntze’s Diasperus roxburghii is not superfluous, as he used D. tetrandrus for another species. Bouman published Nymphanthus roxburghii as a nomen novum for Phyllanthus tetrandrus Roxb.

Oncinema lineare (L.f.) Bullock, Kew Bull. 17: 184 (1963). – Apocynum lineare L.f., Suppl. Pl. 16 (1782). – Type: e cap. b. Spei, C. P. Thunberg s.n. (lectotype UPS-Thunb. [6202], designated here) .

Oncinema roxburghii Arn. , Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 261 (1834). – Type: non designatus.

In describing Oncinema roxburghii, Arnott referred to a Roxburgh collection in Herb. Wight and one by Ward. Searches and enquiries have failed to locate original material in BM, E or K. A specimen from Thunberg’s herbarium is selected as lectotype of Apocynum lineare L.f.