Diospyros taikintana G.E.Schatz & Lowry
, Candollea 76(2): 234 (2021).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77254689-1
- Publication
- Candollea; Organe du Conservatoire et du Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève. Geneva
- Collation
- 76(2): 234
- Date of Publication
- 7 Jul 2021
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Ebenaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Humbert & Capuron 24919
- Locality
- Reg. Sofia [Prov. Mahajanga]: Ambohimirahavavy
- Collection Date
- 19 Jan 1951
- Second Collection Date
- 12 Feb 1951
- Type Herbaria
- holotype MO 6956011
isotype G G00341739
isotype K
isotype P P00580401; P03829461
isotype TAN
isotype US
isotype W - Distribution Of Types
- Madagascar (Western Indian Ocean, Africa)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.15553/c2021v762a3 The specific epithet is the Malagasy word for pill bugs, members of the isopod family Armadillidiidae, which, when rolled into a ball to assume a defensive posture, strongly resemble the squamose bracts that subtend the flower buds.