Abstract
In April 1969 I paid a visit to Ceylon for a week, allowing me to study for the first time the collections of the Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya (PDA), including Thwaites type specimens. My stay was made possible through the Smithsonian Flora of Ceylon Project. The study of Thwaites’ type material revealed some new facts affecting the synonymy of Ochna jabotapita L. and O. obtusata DC. It had previously come to my attention that materials distributed as O. moonii Thw. under number C.P. 1224 belonged to either O. obtusata (BM, BO) or O. lanceolata Spreng. (K, P) (see also the note on page 26 of my revision). I subsequently found that all three species of Ochna in Ceylon were represented on the sheet in PDA, obviously bearing Thwaites’ holotype. From this and accompanying sheets it is clear that the material belonging to O. jabotapita should in fact be designated as the holotype of Thwaites’ species. Consequently, the whole paragraph under O. moonii on page 30 of my revision should be transferred from the synonymy of O. obtusata to that of O. jabotapita. The phrase ‘excl. syn. O. quarrosa L. sensu Moon = O. jabotapita L. ’should be deleted. The type should be referred to as C.P. 1224 p.p. (PDA p.p. holo).
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Type material changed the interpretation of synonymy for Ochna jabotapita and O. obtusata.
- Taxon
- Ochna jabotapita L.
Ochna jabotapitae0 - Outcome
- synonymy of Ochna jabotapita L. and O. obtusata DC.e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The study of Thwaites’ type material revealed some new facts affecting the synonymy of Ochna jabotapita L. and O. obtusata DC.”
Claim · model-written summary
Some C.P. 1224 material distributed as O. moonii belongs to O. obtusata.
- Taxon
- O. obtusata
Ochna obtusatae0 - Material
- C.P. 1224e0
- Outcome
- belonged to either O. obtusata (BM, BO) or O. lanceolata Spreng. (K, P)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“materials distributed as O. moonii Thw. under number C.P. 1224 belonged to either O. obtusata (BM, BO) or O. lanceolata Spreng. (K, P)”
Claim · model-written summary
Some C.P. 1224 material distributed as O. moonii belongs to O. lanceolata.
Verbatim
e0“materials distributed as O. moonii Thw. under number C.P. 1224 belonged to either O. obtusata (BM, BO) or O. lanceolata Spreng. (K, P)”
Claim · model-written summary
The PDA holotype sheet contained all three Ceylon Ochna species.
OchnaOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all three species of Ochna in Ceylon were represented on the sheet in PDA, obviously bearing Thwaites’ holotype”
Claim · model-written summary
The O. jabotapita material was designated as the holotype.
- Taxon
- O. jabotapitaOchna jabotapitae0
- Outcome
- designated as the holotype of Thwaites’ speciese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the material belonging to O. jabotapita should in fact be designated as the holotype of Thwaites’ species”
Claim · model-written summary
The O. moonii paragraph should move to the synonymy of O. jabotapita.
- Taxon
- O. jabotapitaOchna jabotapitae0
- Outcome
- transferred from the synonymy of O. obtusata to that of O. jabotapitae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the whole paragraph under O. moonii on page 30 of my revision should be transferred from the synonymy of O. obtusata to that of O. jabotapita”
Claim · model-written summary
The specified synonymy phrase should be deleted.
- Taxon
- O. jabotapita L.Ochna jabotapitae0
- Outcome
- should be deletede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The phrase ‘excl. syn. O. quarrosa L. sensu Moon = O. jabotapita L. ’should be deleted.”
Claim · model-written summary
The type should be cited as C.P. 1224 p.p. (PDA p.p. holo).
- Outcome
- C.P. 1224 p.p. (PDA p.p. holo)e0
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The type should be referred to as C.P. 1224 p.p. (PDA p.p. holo).”