IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327899-2
Publication
Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the Late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, D.D., to Which are Added Descriptions of Plants More Recently Discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. Serampore, West Bengal, India
Collation
2: 184
Date of Publication
Mar-Jun ? 1824
Family as entered in IPNI
Rubiaceae

Type Information

Type Name
Designated Type: U. villosum Wall.
Chosen By
Pfeiff. Nomencl. Bot. [Pfeiff.] 2: 1536. 1874 [27 Nov 1874]

Remarks

Although Wallich ascribed the genus description to “Jack’s Mss.”, he ascribed the name Urophyllum to himself (“Wall.”), and therefore, the correct attribution is Urophyllum Wall. (see Shenzhen Code Art. 46 ex. 3)

Links

Has later homonym
Urophyllum K.Koch, Berliner Allg. Gartenzeitung 25: 173 (1857), nom. illeg.
Same citation as
Urophyllum Wall., Fl. Ind. (Carey & Wallich ed.) 2: 184 (1824).