Endosamara racemosa var. pallida (Dalzell) J.Compton & Schrire, 2019

Compton, James A., Schrire, Brian D., Koenyves 3, Kalman, Forest, Felix, Malakasi, Panagiota, Sawai Mattapha, & Sirichamorn, Yotsawate, 2019, The Callerya Group redefined and Tribe Wisterieae (Fabaceae) emended based on morphology and data from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences, PhytoKeys 125, pp. 1-112 : 35

Endosamara racemosa var. pallida (Dalzell) J.Compton & Schrire comb. nov.

≡ Wisteria pallida Dalzell, Bombay Flora: 61 (1861). Type: [Icon] India, "In the Dangs, Wassoorna forest, Bombay, very rare, Dr [Alexander] Gibson" (lecto.!, designated here)

≡ Millettia pallida (Dalzell) Dalzell, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 187 (1873)

Nomenclatural note.

This plate by an unknown artist at the Bombay Botanic Garden at Dapuri, commissioned by Nicol Alexander Dalzell, has the annotation "comm. N. Dalzell 1/72 [January 1872], Wisteria pallida Dalz. corrected to Millettia pallida Dalz. mss." in Dalzell’s hand. It is numbered 18 among Dalzell’s artworks in J. D. Hooker’s collections at K and represents the white or pale creamy-yellowish flowered form of this species in western India. It is recombined by us here as var. pallida . Another illustration representing this taxon is of a plant that was cultivated at the Madras Agri-Horticultural Garden. The plant was collected from the Rammanmally [Sandur] Hills, Karnataka by the garden’s superintendent Colonel Francis Archibald Reid and later painted by the artist P. Mooregasan Moodeliar in July 1853. RBGE CAH 27 (Cleghorn Collection, see Noltie 2016: 43)

Illustration.

As Millettia racemosa http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=2056&cat=1