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Issue: Vol. 437 No. 3: 26 March 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-03-26
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.437.3.7
Page range: 169–173
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 2

Typification of the names Michelia cathcartii and Magnolia gustavii (Magnoliaceae)

Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, P.O. Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal, India
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, P.O. Botanic Garden, Howrah – 711 103, West Bengal, India
Magnolia Michelia Lectotype Magnoliaceae Magnoliids

Abstract

The genus Magnolia Linnaeus (1753: 398) is represented by ca. 219 species, distributed in Himalaya to Japan & West Malesia and north-eastern America to tropical America (Mabberley 2017). In India, it is represented by 25 species (Raju 1993, Kundu 2009, POWO 2019), out of which two species [M. punduana (Hooker & Thomson 1855: 81) Figlar (2000: 23) and M. pleiocarpa (Dandy 1933: 313) Figlar & Nooteboom (2004: 95)] are endemic to India (Singh et al. 2015).