- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:696359-1
- Publication
- Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta. Serampore
- Collation
- 29
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Polygonaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- Indigenous
- Distribution Of Types
- India (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Remarks
Although Roxburgh did not provide a description, he (footnote no. 7) cited a reference to Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus 12: plate 76, and this reference provides a description; thus, Roxburgh validly published the name in 1814.