Abstract
result, no element of Rumph. is referable to the genus as circumscribed today. Kostermans (I.e.: 545.1990) realised that Rumph. is a validly published name and typified it by Litsea glutinosa because the male (Litsea glutinosa) is the most elaborately described within Rumphian original materials. This is contrary to his earlier typification of Machilus Nees with M. odoratissima (Kostermans, I.e., 1962). This changed approach of typification will surely cause obstacle in application of the name Machilus. To retain its current usage, I propose here to conserve the name Rumph. with a conserved type, viz. M. odoratissima. Acknowledgements Thanks are due to J. McNeill for his valuable dis cussions, suggestions and editing of the manuscript, to J. Wiersema for his editing of the manuscript, to J.R.I. Wood and YF. Deng for their kind help on the type specimen of M. odoratissima. This work was supported by a project from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-Z-067), Plant Specimen Digitization and Chinese Virtual Herbarium Establishment (2005DKA21401), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30600035).
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