Lectotypification of Gardneria multiflora (Loganiaceae)

Abstract

Lectotype of Gardneria multiflora Makino (Loganiaceae) is designated. The name was proposed based on cultivated plants in 1892 and its valid publication in 1901 was prompted by the specimen collected from a wild population in Okayama Prefecture, Japan and sent to Makino by Zensuke Yoshino. As we could not find this Yoshino specimen, we selected a specimen with flowers collected by Makino himself as the lectotype of G. multiflora from the other three specimens made from the cultivated plants in the Botanical Gardens, Science College, Tokyo Imperial University. Supplementarily we comment on Yoshino’s other specimens in herbaria TI, MAK and KURA.