Abstract
A synopsis of the native species of Combretaceae in the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore) is presented. A total of 29 species in four genera (Combretum, Getonia, Lumnitzera and Terminalia) are recognised. Keys to genera and species are included with synonymy and typification. In total 63 lectotypifications, three second-step lectotypifications and 11 neotypifications are proposed in the paper.
Highlights
The Combretaceae include about 500 species of predominantly trees and scandent shrubs found across most of the equatorial belt (Stace 2007)
The family is well defined and its circumscription and higher-level classification is uncontentious. It is numerically dominated by two large genera Combretum and Terminalia which together make up about 97% of the extant species (Stace 2010)
For the Malay Peninsula, the taxonomy of the family was covered by Ridley (1922) and Exell (1954)
Summary
The Combretaceae include about 500 species of predominantly trees and scandent shrubs found across most of the equatorial belt (Stace 2007). Type: Embryogonia acuminata (Roxb.) Blume (lectotype selected by Stace (2010: 60). Type: EIC 3995 (lectotype G, selected by Gangopadhyay and Chakrabarty (1997: 299). Type: Peninsular Malaysia, Perak, October 1882, Dr King’s Collector 3469 (K barcode K000786600, lectotype designated here; isolectotype BM).
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