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PLANT SPECIES DESCRIBED BY GEORGE BENTHAM AND JOSEPH HOOKER IN HENDERSON AND HUME'S LAHORE TO YĀRKAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2016

I. M. Turner
I. M. Turner*
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK. E-mail: turner187@btinternet.com
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Abstract

Five plant species (Apocynum hendersonii Hook.f. (Apocynaceae), Deyeuxia anthoxanthoides Munro ex Hook.f. (Gramineae), Hololachna shawiana Hook.f. (Tamaricaceae), Iphiona radiata Benth. (Compositae) and Saussurea ovata Benth. (Compositae)) were described from specimens collected by George Henderson on the political mission to Yarkand (now in Xinjiang Province of China) in 1870. The names, with accompanying descriptions and illustrations, appeared in Lahore to Yārkand by Henderson and A. O. Hume. An exact publication date of 1 April 1873 is established for this work of relevance to avian as well as plant taxonomy. The typification of the plant species names to specimens in the Kew herbarium is reviewed. Four new lectotypes are proposed.

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Central AsiaGeorge BenthamGeorge HendersonJoseph HookerlectotypeXinjiang
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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 341 - 344
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2016) 

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