Abelmoschus moschatus Medik., Malvenfam.

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 15-16

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Abelmoschus moschatus Medik., Malvenfam. View in CoL : 46 (1787). – Hibiscus abelmoschus L., Sp.

Pl. 2: 696 (1753). – Type: Herb. Clifford 349, Hibiscus (lectotype BM [ BM000646497 ], designated by Borssum Waalkes, Blumea 14: 92 [1966]) .

Hibiscus chinensis Roxb., Fl. Ind. View in CoL 3: 212 (1832), nom. illegit., non H. chinensis DC. (1824) View in CoL . – Hibiscus roxburghii Steud., Nomencl. Bot. View in CoL , ed. 2, 1: 760 (1840). – Type: non designatus.

Steudel provided a replacement name for Roxburgh’s illegitimate Hibiscus chinensis View in CoL . I have not traced any original material for Roxburgh’s name.

Acilepis aspera View in CoL (Buch.-Ham.) H.Rob., Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 112: 226 (1999). – Vernonia aspera Buch. View in CoL - Ham., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 14: 219–220 (1824). – Type : India, Botanical Garden, 1815, F. Buchanan-Hamilton s.n. [ EIC 2922 E] (lectotype K-W [ K001118205 ], designated here) .

Vernonia roxburghii Less., Linnaea View in CoL 6(4): 674 (1831). – Type: Ind. orient., H.B., 6 i 1815, N. Wallich 13 (lectotype C [ C10023864 ], designated here).

Eupatorium asperum Roxb., Fl. Ind. View in CoL 3: 415 (1832). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 2545 [2539 on drawing] (lectotype K, designated here).

In describing Vernonia roxburghii, Lessing View in CoL referred to two specimens in Hornemann’s herbarium sent by Wallich. A specimen in C, bearing a label by Lessing, is here selected as lectotype for Lessing’s name. Buchanan-Hamilton had already provided a name for the plant growing in Calcutta. He undoubtedly took his epithet from Roxburgh’s nomen nudum Eupatorium asperum View in CoL , which was validated only in 1832.