Gardenia angkorensis Pitard (1923: 252)

Ye, Xing-Er & Xia, Nian-He, 2016, Gardenia reflexisepala (Rubiaceae), A New Species from Hainan Province, China with Typification of G. angkorensis and G. cambodiana, Phytotaxa 257 (2), pp. 193-197 : 194-196

Gardenia angkorensis Pitard (1923: 252)

Lectotype: — CAMBODIA. Kampong Thom Province: Dai kla, 29 May 1909, Magnen, Gourgand & Châtillon s.n. (lectotype P00836460 ! designated here; isolectotype P04001729 !).

In the protologue, four collections from Cambodia were cited, thus all of them were syntypes according to Art. 9.5. of ICN ( McNeill et al. 2012). Two of the four collections cited in the protologue were traced in P ( Thiers 2015). Four sheets (P00836460!, P04001729!, P04001730!, P04001732!) kept in P were labelled with Pitard’s handwriting identification, but only three sheets of them belonging to two collections, Magnen, Gourgand & Châtillon s.n. (P00836460!, P04001729!) from “Dai kla” and F.J.Harmand 940 (P04001732!) from “Angkor-thom”. The two localities were cited in the protologue and therefore the three sheets are supposed to belong to the two of the four collections cited by Pitard. So they should be treated as syntypes for G. angkorensis . The sheet P00836460 from the syntypes with two leafy branches and six flowers agreed well with descriptions in the protologue and was consequently chosen as the lectotype.

Additional Specimens examined: — CAMBODIA. Siem Reap Province: Angkor-thom , 1 August 1873, F. J.Harmand 940 ( P04001732 !) ; s. loc., 14 June 1829, F. J.Harmand 994 ( P04001730 !) .