TY - JOUR T1 - The identity of Actinodaphne sessilifructa (Lauraceae) JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2018 DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.374.2.8 A1 - Zhou, Jian-Jun A1 - Wu, Lei A1 - Wu, Shao-Wu SP - 162 EP - 166 KW - Actinodaphne KW - China KW - Litsea KW - New combination KW - taxonomy AB -

Examination of specimens and relevant literature and field investigation reveal that Actinodaphne sessilifructa is a representative of Litsea rather than Actinodaphne. A new combination, Litsea sessilifructa, is proposed.

VL - 374 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Second-step lectotypification of the Linnaean name Laurus cassia (Lauraceae) enabling its unambiguous use as Neolitsea cassia JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2018 DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.379.3.8 A1 - Chakrabarty, Tapas SP - 274 EP - 276 VL - 379 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Validation of the name Persea himalayensis (Lauraceae) JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2013 DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.92.2.5 A1 - Kumar, Venkatachalam S A1 - Gangopadhyay, M. SP - 59 EP - 60 VL - 92 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Notes on Indian Neolitsea (Lauraceae)—two new varietal combinations under N. cassia and N. foliosa and typification of five names JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2019 A1 - Chakrabarty, Tapas SP - 209 EP - 214 VL - 419 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Persea himalayensis (Lauraceae), a superfluous name for Machilus odoratissima and second-step lectotypification of Machilus odoratissima JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kumar, Anand SP - 91 EP - 94 VL - 420 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Typification of the name Litsea mackeei (née Lauraceae) and its reassignment to the synonymy of Osmanthus austrocaledonicus var. austrocaledonicus (Oleaceae) JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.13 A1 - Munzinger, Jérôme A1 - McPherson, Gordon SP - 137 EP - 143 KW - New Caledonia KW - nomenclature AB -

The protologue of Litsea mackeei states that its holotype is at P.  However, two specimens bearing the type number appear to exist at P, the second specimen belonging to a species different from the first and bearing as well a label with a different collection number.  Fortunately, a clear indication of which plant Kostermans was describing is provided by his handwritten annotation of the isotype at L.  A lectotype is therefore chosen, the name is synonymized with Osmanthus austrocaledonicus var. austrocaledonicus and the origin of this unlikely error is discussed.

VL - 331 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A new species of Cinnamomum and notes on the status of C. palghatensis in Western Ghats, India JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.326.4.3 A1 - M.P. Geethakumary A1 - S. Deepu A1 - A.G. Pandurangan SP - 252 EP - 258 KW - Cinnamomum KW - Kerala KW - new species KW - Nilgiri KW - Tamil Nadu AB -

Cinnamomum gamblei, a new species of Lauraceae is described from Western Ghats, India. The new species resembles C. macrocarpum by having large fruit, but is easily recognized by its habit, leaf morphology, shape and size of tepals and 4-locellate stamens in whorl III. A detailed description along with images, distribution details, comparison with related species and other relevant notes are provided for its easy identification. The status of C. palghatensis is also discussed here.

VL - 326 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cuticular features of Cryptocarya (Lauraceae) from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China and its taxonomic implications JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2016 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.244.1.2 A1 - Sachiko Nishida A1 - Rogier P.J. de Kok A1 - Yang, Yong SP - 26 EP - 44 KW - cuticle KW - epidermis KW - Morphology AB -

Cuticular features potentially offer valuable information on phytotaxonomy, especially for plants that are difficult to classify or identify. Cryptocarya is one such difficult and poorly known genus, and we investigated its cuticular features to evaluate their taxonomic implications. We examined cutinized leaf epidermis and the stomatal complex for 21 species from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China, as well as one species endemic to Borneo and one to Sumatra, and compared features among members of this group, between this group and congeners in the other countries, and between this group and the other genera of Lauraceae. Many of the Cryptocarya species studied have straight to slightly curved anticlinal epidermal walls and butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges, although some variation was seen in the ornamentation of the periclinal epidermal walls and the appearance of the stomatal complex. Based on these results, we recognized four groups and two subgroups among the South-east Asian species. Comparison with congeneric taxa in the other countries indicates that butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges are often shared among the species across the regions. However, no cuticular features occur exclusively in any of the species groups of Cryptocarya studied here, nor in the genus as a whole. We consider that cuticular features are useful in the recognition of infrageneric groups within Lauraceae, bearing in mind that they might have evolved in parallel in different genera.

VL - 244 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - New names in Cinnamomoides, Cinnamomum and Neolitsea (Lauraceae), and Pterospermum (Malvaceae), fossil and living JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2017 DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.326.3.3 A1 - Doweld, Alexander B SP - 189 EP - 201 KW - botanical nomenclature KW - Cinnamomiphyllum KW - Cinnamomophyllum KW - Daphnogene KW - Laurales KW - Neolitsea KW - palaeobotany KW - Pterospermum KW - taxonomic literature AB -

The homonymy of some fossil and extant species names of Cinnamomum is resolved. Cinnamomum gracile (Geyler) Ettingshausen (fossil) is replaced by a new name C. camphoricum nom. nov., because of the earlier homonym C. gracile Miquel (extant); C. costulatum nom. nov. is proposed to replace the later homonym C. apiculatum Saporta (fossil fruits) non C. apiculatum Pilar (fossil leaves); C. fajumicum nom. nov. is proposed instead of C. africanum Engelhardt (fossil) non C. africanum Lukmanoff (extant); C. kalbaricum nom. nov. instead of C. grandifolium Cammerloher (extant) non C. grandifolium (Ettingshausen) Schimper (fossil); C. weddellii nom. nov. in place of C. orbiculatum Lukmanoff (extant) non C. orbiculatum Saporta (fossil). Cinnamomum camphoricarpum sp. nov. is validated instead of the invalidly published C. macropodum Miki (lacking holotype designation when published) based on fossil fruits and seeds from Pliocene sediments of Japan. Cinnamomum goeppertii Ettingshausen is rehabilitated as a legitimate substitute for Daphnogene javanica Göppert,
because the combination C. javanicum (Göppert) van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, van Waveren & Jonkers is illegitimate due to the existence of an earlier homonym, C. javanicum Blume (extant). Pterospermum wilkieanum nom. nov. (Malvaceae) is proposed instead of P. gracile Wilkie (extant) non P. gracile Geyler (fossil) (≡ C. gracile (Geyler) Ettingshausen). Cinnamomum salicifolium (Nees) Kostermans and C. trinerve (Lundell) Kostermans (extant) were found to be later illegitimate homonyms of fossil-species, C. salicifolium Staub and C. trinerve Bell respectively. Furthermore Cinnamomiphyllum Nathorst, Daphnogene grandifolia, D. lanceolata, Cinnamomum broteroi, C. orbiculatum, C. salicifolium Staub (non (Nees) Kostermans), C. trinerve Bell (non (Lundell) Kostermans), and C. ucrainicum are lectotypified. New combinations are validated: Cinnamomoides broteroi comb. nov., C. ellipticum comb. nov., C. humei comb. nov., C. jordanicum comb. nov., Cinnamomum duabicum comb. nov., Neolitsea marginata comb. nov., N. pannonica comb. nov., N. staubii comb. nov. As an addition to Taxonomic Literature II records, the precise dates of publication of the taxonomic works of Göppert’s Die Tertiärflora auf der Insel Java (1854), Lukmanoff’s Nomenclature et iconographie des Canneliers et Camphriers (1878, not 1889), Ettingshausen’s Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tertiärflora der Insel Java (1883) and Zur Tertiärflora von Borneo (1883, not 1884) are established here.

VL - 326 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Three new species of Lauraceae from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2017 DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.316.2.4 A1 - Pedro L.R. de Moraes SP - 149 EP - 160 KW - Bahia KW - Cinnamomum KW - Espírito Santo KW - Mezilaurus KW - new species KW - Williamodendron AB -

Three South-American new species belonging to Cinnamomum, Mezilaurus, and Williamodendron, are described and illustrated from specimens collected in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The new species are Cinnamomum baitelloanum,
Mezilaurus sessiliflora, and Williamodendron itamarajuensis. Their putative relationships within the respective genus are discussed.

VL - 316 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Aniba inaequabilis (Lauraceae), a new species from Peru JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2016 A1 - Da Matta, Alysson A1 - Carvalho, Rangel B. de A1 - Vicentini, Alberto SP - 140 EP - 143 VL - 282 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A new species of Litsea (Lauraceae) from Kerala part of Western Ghats, India JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2017 DO - doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.303.3.9 A1 - Robi, A.J. A1 - Udayan, Punnakkal Sreedharan A1 - Li, Hsi-Wen A1 - Li, Jie SP - 285 EP - 289 AB -

A new species of Litsea from India is described and illustrated. Litsea indoverticillata is recognized from the Malabar Wildlife sanctuary of Nilgiri phytogeographical zone of southern Western Ghats. It is distinguished from the closely related L. quinqueflora and L. verticillata by straggling shrub habit; 7–15 mm long, glabrous petiole, chartaceous and glabrous leaves, glabrous midrib; 15–24 pairs of lateral veins; solitary, glabrous, and pruinose inflorescence; greenish-white to whitish flowers.

VL - 303 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Ocotea dilcherii, a new name for Ocotea obtusifolia (Berry) LaMotte (Lauraceae) JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vikulin, Sergei V SP - 199 EP - 200 AB -

The fossil species Oreodaphne obtusifolia Berry (1916: 301) was described, based on the fossil leaf remains of the most abundant laurel from the Early Eocene Wilcox Group sediments of Holly Springs: Marshall Co, Grenada Co., Miss.: Mississippi embayment (Southeastern North America). Nowadays, most systematists consider the extant Oreodaphne to be a member of Ocotea (Mez, 1889: 219; Rohwer, 1986; van der Werff, 2002; Chanderbali et al., 2001). LaMotte (1952) transferred Berry’s (1916: 301) combination to Ocotea, and this transfer was followed by Dilcher (1963), who reinforced attribution of Wilcox leaf megafossils to Ocotea by cuticular analysis of epidermis and stomata (Dilcher & Lott, 2005). However, according to Art. 53.1 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012) the name Ocotea obtusifolia (Berry) LaMotte (1952) is illegitimate because of the existence of the earlier overlooked homonym, Ocotea obtusifolia Kunth (1817: 165–166), an extant lauraceous species from Colombia (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, holotype: http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.P00128771). The homonymy between these fossil and extant American species of Ocotea was revealed during the description of the new fossil Early Oligocene species Ocotea rossica Vikulin from the south of the Middle-Russian upland (Vikulin, 2015: 326). Since Ocotea obtusifolia (Berry) LaMotte has been systematically recognized as a valid species in current use and it does not have any synonym, a nomen novum, O. dilcherii, is formally proposed here as a replaced name. Because a type specimen was not indicated among the validating illustrations of Berry (1916: pl. 80, fig. 1; pl. 83, fig. 2–5, and pl. 84, fig. 1 and 2), a lectotype must be designated here, from the specimens illustrated in the protologue (Berry, 1916: 301–302) amongst those perfect specimens with blunt leaf apex, which are very abundant in the clays at Puryear, Tenn. (Proposed lectotype: paleobotany collection # USNM 35867, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (USA), illustrated in Berry, 1916: 301, pl. 83, fig. 5.

VL - 239 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Litsea udayanii (Lauraceae): A new species from the southern Western Ghats, India JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2015 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.222.1.4 A1 - Robi, A.J. A1 - George, Satheesh A1 - Thushar, K.V. SP - 44 EP - 50 KW - Anamalai KW - Kerala KW - new species KW - Western Ghats AB -

Litsea udayanii, a new species of Lauraceae from the Anamalai phytogeographical zone of southern Western Ghats is described and illustrated here. The new species resembles L. cubeba in its clustered inflorescence and L. beddomei in fruits.  Litsea udayanii differs from L. cubeba by its coriaceous leaves, 12 staminodes in the female flowers, ellipsoid fruits, and an enlarged and cup-shaped perianth tube; it differs from L. beddomei by its elliptic-oblong leaves with cuneate to rounded base and abaxially prominent tertiary veins, and by its clustered inflorescence. In contrast, L. cubeba is characterized by chartaceous leaves, 8–9 staminodes in the female flowers, subglobose fruits, and a small and flattened perianth tube and L. beddomei is distinguished by linear-oblong leaves with acute to attenuate base and abaxially inconspicuous tertiary veins, and by inflorescences arranged on 1–5 cm long brachyblasts.

VL - 222 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Typification of seven species of Litsea (Lauraceae) endemic to India JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2015 A1 - Singh, Rajeev K. SP - 278 EP - 286 VL - 201 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A phylogenetic analysis of the Cryptocarya group (Lauraceae), and relationships of Dahlgrenodendron, Sinopora, Triadodaphne, and Yasunia JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2014 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.158.2.1 A1 - Rohwer, Jens G. A1 - Pedro L.R. de Moraes A1 - Rudolph, Barbara A1 - van der Werff, Henk SP - 111 EP - 132 KW - Biogeography KW - evolution KW - floral morphology AB -

A phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear ITS and plastid trnK intron sequences confirms that Dahlgrenodendron, Sinopora, Triadodaphne, and Yasunia are members of the Cryptocarya group, as expected from morphology.  Dahlgrenodendron from South Africa is sister to Aspidostemon from Madagascar. Triadodaphne inaequitepala is nested within Endiandra (both from Australasia), and Yasunia from South America is nested among South American Beilschmiedia species. Sinopora is a member of the Beilschmiedia clade, but its precise position is still uncertain.  Among large genera of the group, Cryptocarya is clearly monophyletic, and Endiandra appears to be as well, if T. inaequitepala is included. Beilschmiedia is paraphyletic with respect to (at least) Potameia and Yasunia. Most well-supported clades within genera are geographically homogeneous, except a clade including the Chilean Cryptocarya alba and two New Caledonian species. Both Beilschmiedia and Cryptocarya have reached the Americas more than once.  Four-locular anthers are plesiomorphic in the Cryptocarya group; two-locular anthers have arisen by fusion of the two pollen sacs of a theca. In the plesiomorphic fruit type, the ovary is completely enclosed in receptacular tissue; a superior fruit, seated free on its pedicel, is a synapomorphy of the Beilschmiedia clade.

VL - 158 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Litsea dorsalicana (Lauraceae): a new species from limestone areas in northern Guangxi, China JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2013 DO - dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.118.2.4 A1 - Han, M.Q. A1 - Huang, Y.S. A1 - Liu, Jing A1 - Wei-Bin Xu SP - 56 EP - 60 VL - 118 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A new species of Caryodaphnopsis Airy Shaw (Lauraceae) from southeastern Yunnan, China JF - Phytotaxa Y1 - 2013 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.118.1.1 A1 - Liu, Bing A1 - Yang, Yong A1 - Ma, Keping SP - 1 EP - 8 KW - conservation KW - field investigation KW - flora KW - taxonomy VL - 118 ER -