Rejection of the Names Magnolia heptapeta and M. quinquepeta (Magnoliaceae)

Buchoz (1779) published the genus Lassonia with two species, L. heptapeta and L. quinquepeta based on plant figures of Chinese origin first published by Buchoz in 1776. Only the Chinese vernacular names Yulan and Xinyi (or Mulan) appear on the original plates. In 1934, Dandy transferred both L. heptapeta and L. quinquepeta to the genus Magnolia, but these names of Buchoz were later rejected by him in preference of Magnolia denudata and M. liliiflora of Desrousseaux. More recently the Buchoz names have been resurrected by several authors which has resulted in a running controversy over the Buchoz names as to their application in the genus Magnolia. In fact, the figures themselves are without any redeeming botanical value whatsoever, as a close scrutiny of the figures reveals. The names Magnolia heptapeta (Buchoz) Dandy and M. quinquepeta (Buchoz) Dandy are categorically rejected as incertae sedis, because the Buchoz figures do not match the species to which some people apply his names, thus leaving the names unapplied and without identifiable types. The earliest applicable names for the taxa in question with the Chinese names Yulan and Mulan are Magnolia denudata and M. liliiflora, respectively, both of Desrousseaux (1791), based on the earlier illustrations of Kaempfer..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

1987

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1987

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

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Taxon - 36(1987), 3, Seite 590-600

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Meyer, Frederick G. [VerfasserIn]
McClintock, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]

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10.2307/1221853

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