NeBIO I www.nebio.in I December 2019 I 10(4): 201-208. CORRESPONDENCE Overlooked inadvertent lectotypifications of six names in Indo-Malesian Phyllanthaceae Tapas Chakrabarty1, Gopal Krishna2 and Mahendra Nath Mitta*3 14, Botanical Garden Lane, Howrah - 711 103, West Bengal, India. 2Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah - 711 103, West Bengal, India. 3Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati - 517 502, Andhra Pradesh, India. Email:
[email protected] ABSTRACT This paper points out the inadvertent lectotypifications of six names in Phyllanthaceae viz., Antidesma neurocarpum Miq., Antidesma sootepense Craib, Aporosa latifolia Thwaites, Leiocarpus fruticosus Blume, Sauropus garretti Craib and Sauropus rostratus Miq. that have been overlooked and re-lectofied. Of these, a second-step lectotype has been designated for the name Aporosa latifolia. KEYWORDS: Phyllanthaceae; Antidesma; Aporosa; Breynia; lectotypification. Introduction Lectotypifications Chakrabarty & Gangopadhyay (1993, 1996, 2000) under Art. 7.11 Antidesma neurocarpum Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind., Eerste Bijv. 3: 466. of the ICN (Turland et al., 2018) inadvertently lectotypified (see 1861. Figure 1. Prado et al., 2015) Antidesma neurocarpum Miq., Antidesma sootepense Craib, Aporosa latifolia Thwaites, Leiocarpus Type (lectotype, designated by Chakrabarty & Gangopadhyay, fruticosus Blume (a synonym of Aporosa frutescens Blume), 2000: 32): Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampong Province, Near Sauropus garretti Craib [basionym of Breynia garretti (Craib) Siringkebau, Mangala, Teijsmann HB 4532 (CAL0000023289!; Chakrab. & N.P. Balakr.] and Sauropus rostratus Miq. [a synonym isolectotype U0080845: image!). Residual syntypes: Indonesia, of Breynia temii (Welzen & Chayam.) Welzen & Pruesapan]. Lampong, Teijsmann s.n. (K00006154: image!). Indonesia, However, all these names were re-lectotypified by later workers Sumatra, Lampong, No collector [Teijsmann] HB 4365 (U0080844: which are to be treated as superfluous.