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Re-evaluation of the identities of Glossadelphus borneensis and its associated synonyms, G. attenuatus and G. nitidus

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An investigation of the type specimen of Glossadelphus borneensis (and its basionym Ectropothecium borneense) and those of its purported synonyms, G. attenuatus and G. nitidus, revealed that these names apply to three distinct taxa belonging to two different genera. The following changes are proposed: Vesicularia borneensis is reinstated for G. borneensis, G. attenuatus is synonymized to Ectropothecium cyperoides and G. nitidus (lectotypified herein) is synonymized to E. obtusulum.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the curators and staff of B, F, G, JE, M, PE, S, US and WU for providing loans of specimens cited in this study. We are grateful to Dr. Hiroyuki Akiyama and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments.

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This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31870185) and by the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity.

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  1. School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China

    Zhao-Qin Yi & Li-Qiang Mu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

    Zhao-Qin Yi & Yu Jia

  3. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, 63110, USA

    Si He

  4. Jiyang College of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhuji, 311800, China

    Jun-Jie Wang

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Yi, ZQ., He, S., Wang, JJ. et al. Re-evaluation of the identities of Glossadelphus borneensis and its associated synonyms, G. attenuatus and G. nitidus. Brittonia 74, 207–214 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-021-09695-4

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