- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:602254-1
- Publication
- Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon, Containing Descriptions of all the Species of Flowering Plants Indigenous to the Island, and Notes on Their History, Distribution, and Uses. London
- Collation
- 6: 117
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Myrtaceae
Original Data
- Remarks
- Myrtus androsaemoides
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. illeg. nom. superfl.
Remarks
Alston erred in treating Syzygium androsaemoides (L.) Walp. as 2 species: Syzygium androsaemoides Walp. & Myrtus androsaemoides L.; for the latter, he proposed S. spissum as a new name.