Breynia fruticosa

Esser, H. - J., Stuppy, W. H. & Welzen, P. C. van, 2022, Three new species and several typifications of Breynia (Phyllanthaceae) from Malesia, Blumea 67 (2), pp. 132-138 : 137

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2022.67.02.07
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scientific name	Breynia fruticosa
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Breynia fruticosa View in CoL (L.) Müll.Arg.

Breynia fruticosa (L.) Müll.Arg. (1866) 237. — Andrachne fruticosa L. (1753) 1014. — Melanthesopsis fruticosa (L.) Müll.Arg. (1866) 437, nom alt. — Breynia fruticosa (L.) Hook.f.(1887) 331, comb. nov. superfl. — Lectotype (designated by Esser in Jarvis 2007: 289): P. Osbeck s.n. (LINN [LINN 1155.2], China, no date.

Melanthesa chinensis Blume (1826) View in CoL 592. — Phyllanthus introductus Steud. (1841) View in CoL 327 (non P.sinensis Müll.Arg. View in CoL ). — Lectotype (designated here): C.L. Blume s.n. (L [L 0271835]; isolecto A, NY, P not seen), cultivated in Bogor Botanic Gardens and introduced from China, no date.

Note — Breynia fruticosa View in CoL is locally common in China, e.g., around Canton, an area visited by several colonial botanists in former centuries. Therefore, it was once cultivated in botanical gardens in Europe, among others, in Berlin in 1832 (as reported by an anonymous collection in KIEL) and in Bogor in 1826.