Polyspora Sweet
, News Lit. Fashion 2: 205 (1825).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39175-1
- Publication
- News of Literature and Fashion, The.
- Collation
- 2: 205
- Date of Publication
- 26 Mar 1825
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Theaceae
Type Information
- Type Name
- P. axillaris (Roxb. ex Ker-Gawl.) Sweet (Camellia axillaris Roxburgh ex Ker-Gawl.)
Remarks
Genus name published anonymously by Robert Sweet; he assigned the genus to Ternstroemiaceae, tribe Gordoniae, provided a short description for the tribe and a short diagnosis for the genus as: “It [Polyspora] differs from the other genera of the tribe in producing several seeds in each cell …”