Lectotypes and Original Material for Blume’s Species and Varieties of Fagaceae from Japan

Abstract

In 1851, Carl Lodewijk von Blume, who studied extensively the specimens collected in Japan by Siebold, Bürger, their successors, and their Japanese correspondents, described a great number of new species and varieties of Quercus and other genera of Fagaceae. His treatment, especially of Quercus, influenced later workers on the family, and also studies of the flora and vegetation of Japan. To stabilize the taxonomy of the family, lectotypes for taxa described by Blume are herein designated for Quercus (13 species and 13 varieties), Lithocarpus (1 and 2), Castanea (1 and 10), and Fagus (1 and 2).