Fagraea chinensis Merr

24. Fagraea chinensis Merr. (Loganiaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 261. 1923. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Danzhou, Yik Tsok Mau, 19 May 1922, F. A. McClure 3175 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 9724) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00075981 image!, NY 00297329 image!). The name Fagraea chinensis Merr. was validly published with a gathering “ McClure 9724 ” designated as the type (Merrill, 1923). However, on the label of the syntype specimen exists in A, the collecting number is 3175 and the herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 9724. Therefore, the erroneous collecting number in the designation of type is to be corrected.
Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 271-282 in Phytotaxa 598 (4) on page 275, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.598.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7983799
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