Clarification on the typification of Eugenia discifera Eugenia discifera Gamble (1918: 239). Type citation in protologue:—“SOUTH INDIA. Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats in Travancore, near Chimunji, 1300 m., April, 1895, T. F. Bourdillon, 580, 787”. Lectotype (designated by Nair & Srinivasan 1980): INDIA. Travancore: near Chimunji, 1300 m, 3 April 1895, T.F. Bourdillon 580 (CAL0000015511!; isolectotypes CAL0000015510!, K000821387 [digital image!]). Remaining syntype:— INDIA. Travancore: near Chimunji, 1300 m, April 1895, T.F. Bourdillon 787 (K001000002 [digital image!]). Notes:— Nair & Srinivasan (1980) effectively designated the lectotype for the name Eugenia discifera Gamble by selecting specimen CAL0000015511 (Figure 3) upon rediscovery of E. discifera after 85 years. However, Byng et al. (2015) later designated specimen K000821387 as the lectotype, unaware of the earlier lectotypification by Nair & Srinivasan (1980). Consequently, the lectotypification by Byng et al. (2015) cannot be upheld, as Nair & Srinivasan (1980) were the original authors who effectively lectotypified E. discifera.

Published as part of Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2024, Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Eugenia (Myrtaceae) from India, pp. 268-276 in Phytotaxa 638 (3) on pages 272-275, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.638.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13213050