Breynia lanceolata (Hook.f.) Welzen & Pruesapan, 2014

Welzen, P. C. van, Pruesapan, K., Telford, I. R. H., Esser, H. - J. & Bruhl, J. J., 2014, Phylogenetic reconstruction prompts taxonomic changes in Sauropus, Synostemon and Breynia (Phyllanthaceae tribe Phyllantheae), Blumea 59 (2), pp. 77-94 : 92

Breynia lanceolata (Hook.f.) Welzen & Pruesapan , comb. nov., nom. nov., non B. rhamnoides (Willd.) Müll.Arg.

Sauropus lanceolatus Hook.f., Fl. Br. India 5 (1887) 333. — Type: Griffith KD 4825 (holotype K; ‘4828’ on sheet; N.B. there are more sheets of Griffith KD 4828 at K, one is a paratype of Sa. macrophyllus Hook.f. ), India, East Bengal, Mishmee.

Sauropus rhamnoides Blume, Bijdr. 12 (1826) 596. — Aalius rhamnoides (Blume) Kuntze (1891) 591, as ‘ rhamnodes ’. — Phyllanthus rhamnifolius Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2009) 715, non P. rhamnoides Retz. — Breynia macrocalyx Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012) 122, nom. illeg., nom. superfl. — Lectotype (designated by Van Welzen 2003:367): Blume s.n. (L, barcode L 0138511), Indonesia, Java, Montis Salak.

Note — The combination Breynia rhamnoides (Willd.) Müll. Arg. already exists. Next in line is the epithet lanceolatus , which is older than the epithet macrocalyx of Chakrabarty & Balakrishnan (2012) and, therefore, it has precedence over the latter superfluous name. For more heterotypic synonyms see Van Welzen (2003).