Published October 24, 2023 | Version v1
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Smilax quadrata De Candolle 1878

  • 1. geetikasukhramani @ aripune. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7974 - 5758
  • 2. rkchoudhary @ aripune. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6250 - 4624

Description

4. Smilax quadrata De Candolle (1878: 183). (Fig. 6)

Lectotype (designated by Koyama 1963: 55 as “holotype”, corrected here):— INDIA. Assam: Khasia Hills, s.d., Hooker fil & Thomson 13, K000820896 (K, digital image!). Syntypes:— INDIA. East Bengal: Khasia, s.d., Griffith 5427 K000820895 (K, digital image!), INDIA. s.loc., s.d., Griffith 5452 G00382270 (G, digital image!)

Distribution:— CHINA, INDIA, MYANMAR

Notes:— Smilax quadrata was described by Alphonse De Candolle in 1878 based on three gatherings from Khasia India Orientalis (Hooker and Thomson 13, Griffith 5247, and Griffith 5452). The discrepancy between the collection number stated in the protologue, which is 5247, and the number on the sheet, which is 5427, indicates a correctable error.

While searching for the type specimens of S. quadrata, we found that they are housed at K and G. Koyama (1963) selected ‘Hooker and Thomson 13’ of K as holotype. However, the use of the term holotype is an error to be corrected to lectotype, following article 9.10 of the ICN (done here). This is considered here as an effective lectotypification by Koyama, following Article 7.11 of ICN (Turland et al. 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Sukhramani, Geetika & Choudhary, Ritesh Kumar, 2023, Taxonomic Reconciliation of Smilacaceae in the Indian Subcontinent: Synonymy, Typification, Updated Inventory, and a Vegetative Key for Identification, pp. 42-62 in Phytotaxa 622 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.622.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10085698

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
G , K
Family
Smilacaceae
Genus
Smilax
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
G00382270 , K000820895 , K000820896
Order
Liliales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
De Candolle
Species
quadrata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Smilax quadrata Candolle, 1878 sec. Sukhramani & Choudhary, 2023

References

  • De Candolle, A. & De Candolle, C. (1878) Monographiae phanerogamarum prodromi nunc continuato nunc revisio. Vol. 1. G. Masson, Parisiis, pp. 1 - 217. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 45961
  • Koyama, T. (1963) The Indian species of Smilax. Advancing Frontiers of Plant Sciences 4: 39 - 77.
  • Turland, N. J., Wiersema, J. H., Barrie, F. R., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D. L., Herendeen, P. S., Knapp, S., Kusber, W. - H., Li, D. - Z., Marhold, K., May, T. W., McNeill, J., Monro, A. M., Prado, J., Price, M. J. & Smith, G. F. (Eds.) (2018) International Code of Nomenclature foralgae, fungi, and plants (Shenzhen Code) adopted by the Nineteenth International Botanical Congress Shenzhen, China, July 2017. Regnum Vegetabile 159. Glashutten: Koeltz Botanical Books, 254 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.12705 / Code. 2018