Smilax kingii Hooker

Sukhramani, Geetika & Choudhary, Ritesh Kumar, 2022, Lectotypification of four names in the genus Smilax (Smilacaceae), Phytotaxa 532 (1), pp. 107-113 : 107-112

2. Smilax kingii Hooker f. (1892: 307). Fig. 2 .

Lectotype (designated here): MALAYAN PENINSULA, Perak, Larut , Feb. 1883, Dr. King’s Collector 3914, K000292116 (K, digital image!). Isolectotypes: CAL0000033931 (CAL, digital image!), CAL0000033933 (CAL, digital image!), L1453439 (L, digital image!), P00686983 (P, digital image!), P00686984 (P, digital image!) . Syntypes: MALAYAN PENINSULA, Perak, Larut , April 1883, Dr. King’s Collector 4171, CAL0000033932 (CAL, digital image!), CAL0000033936 (CAL, digital image!), SING 0218425 (SING, digital image!), SING 0218426 (SING, digital image!), ibid, s.loc., April 1881, Dr. King’s Collector 4171, K000292117 (K, digital image!) .

Distribution: INDIA, MALAYSIA.

Notes: While searching for the original materials of Smilax kingii , we came across 11 sheets referred by Hooker f. (1892), four at CAL (CAL0000033931, CAL0000033932, CAL0000033933, CAL0000033936), two each at K (K000232116, K000292117), P (P00686983, P00686984), and SING (SING 0218425, SING 0218426) and one at L (L1453439). All of them mentioned the type location as Malayan Peninsula and Dr. King’s Collector, as in the protologue citation. But they represented different collection numbers and dates such as 3914, Feb. 1883 in CAL0000033931, CAL0000033933, K000232116, P00686983, P00686984, L1453439; 4171, April 1883 in CAL0000033932, CAL0000033936, SING 0218425, SING 0218426, and 4171, April 1881 in K000292117. However, the annotation ' April 1881 ' on K000292117 can be considered a correctable error as all the other sheets bear 1883 as the year of collection (rectified in CAL0000033932, CAL0000033936, SING 0218425 & SING 0218426). Following articles 7.11, 9.3, and 9.12 of the ICN, we selected K000292116 as a lectotype which have Dr. King’s Collector’s annotation as “3914, Malay Peninsula, Larut, Perak, Feb , 1883” and bears flowers along with the vegetative details matching perfectly with the protologue description.

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FIGURE 2. Lectotype of Smilax kingii J.D.Hooker K000292116 © copyright of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.