Geissois montana Vieill. ex Brongn. & Gris

Fortune Hopkins, Helen C., 2006, Nomenclature and typification in Geissois (Cunoniaceae) in the South-West Pacific, Adansonia (3) 28 (2), pp. 311-327 : 318

7. Geissois montana Vieill. ex Brongn. & Gris

Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 9: 71 (1862) . — Types (as given in protologue): “prope Balade (Vieillard, no 608, et in herb. expos. colon., no 638)”. — Lectotype (here designated): Balade, 1855-1860, Vieillard 608 (P!, with labels for “ Vieillard, Herb. de la Nouvelle Calédonie ” and “ Herbier de l’Exposition Coloniale ” [buds]; isolecto-, P! p.p. [label for Institut botanique de Caen, fragment A, old fl.]; possible isolecto-, G!, K!, P! [labels for “ Vieillard, Herb. de la Nouvelle-Calédonie” and “ Herb. Mus. Paris ”, fragment B, lvs. + separate racemes of old fl.]).

Remarks

The lectotype consists of a shoot system with a raceme of buds and a separate detached raceme of buds.Two other sheets at P are labelled “ Vieillard 608, Balade, 1855-60”.The first of these consists of two twigs with leaves; the upper twig [ A] has leaves that match the lectotype and old flowers, while the lower fragment [ B] has slightly different leaves and buds and could be from a separate gathering. The final sheet has two detached racemes of old flowers and a twig with leaves of sort B , and so it may perhaps also be an isolectotype but is not certainly one. The sheets at K (ex Herb. Hooker, 1867) and G with the same label data as the lectotype are a good match for fragment [ B] .

The other syntype (Vieillard 638, s.loc., s.dat., Herb. Expos. Colon., [buds], P! × 2) is conspecific. Material at P and K of Vieillard 608 from Wagap, distributed by Lenormand in 1866 and 1867, is not part of the type; most of it is G. montana but one fragment at K is G. intermedia .