Reassessing the nomenclatural status of the names Popowia ramosissima and P. beddomeana (Miliuseae: Malmeoideae: Annonaceae)
摘要
This study resolves the long-standing nomenclatural confusion of the name Popowia ramosissima Bedd. Through a comprehensive examination of the species publication history, typification and relationships, we demonstrate that P. ramosissima Bedd. is not a name. Instead, Beddome’s misidentified specimens represent a distinct species, P. beddomeana Hook.f. & Thomson, which was validly described as a new species by Hooker & Thomson in 1872.