Bignonia ghonta Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don

, Gen. Hist. 4(1): 222 (1837). BHL
IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60474172-2
Publication
A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants: comprising complete descriptions of the different orders; together with the characters of the genera and species, and an enumeration of the cultivated varieties ... the scientific names accentuated, their etymologies explained, and the classes and orders illustrated by engravings, and preceded by introductions to the Linnaean and natural systems, and a glossary of the terms used ... London
Collation
4(1): 222
Family as entered in IPNI
Bignoniaceae

Type Information

Distribution Of Types
India (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)

Nomenclatural Notes

(as ghorta)

Remarks

The Wallich Cat. #6510 shows Buchanan-Hamilton’s epithet as “ghonta”. Mark Watson (E) checked Buchanan-Hamilton’s manuscript of his Bengal collections and remarked that Buchanan-Hamilton frequently used the vernacular names in coining new botanical names and in this case, the epithet was derived from the name ‘Ghonta’ (= bell, alluding to the corolla shape) for this plant in Bengal. Additionally, two labels on a type specimen (N. Wallich #6510 at GDC (G00133401)) show the epithet as ghonta. Don’s epithet “ghorta” is treated as a typographical error and corrected as ghonta (see ICN Art. 60 Ex. 4)

Links

Basionym of
Pauldopia ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis, Acta Bot. Neerl. 18: 427 (1969).
Basionym of
Radermachera ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Chatterjee, Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal 2(1): 71 (1948).
Basionym of
Stereospermum ghonta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 4(11): 384 (1884).
Basionym of
Radermachera ghorta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Chatterjee, Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal 2(1): 71 (1948).
Basionym of
Stereospermum ghorta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 4(11): 384 (1884).
Basionym of
Pauldopia ghorta (Buch.-Ham. ex G.Don) Steenis, Acta Bot. Neerl. 18: 427 (1969).