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(1487) Proposal to conserve the name Bambusa viridistriata Siebold ex André (Poaceae, Bambusoideae)
Author(s) -
Stapleton Chris M. A.,
Renvoize S. A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1223725
Subject(s) - bambusa , library science , humanities , art , botany , biology , computer science , bamboo
In his publication of the earlier Bambusa viridistriata, Regel (Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1866: 77. 1867) stated that living material in the Imperial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg was “introduced from the gardens of Japan by the renowned Maximowicx”. Five years later a second Bambusa viridistriata, attributed to Siebold and with an expanded description was published from the Linden Garden in Belgium (André in L’Illustration Horticole 19: 319. 1872), including the statement that the species was “introduced from the gardens of Japan first by the renowned Siebold, and then by the renowned Maximowicx”. André started his text with the statement that the species had already been known for some years. He then expanded each of the characters described by Regel (l.c.) in turn, and added generic characters, an illustration and a list of similar variegated bamboos. Nowhere was Regel’s earlier publication mentioned, but the wording, the similarities and the connections between the two publications are manifold, not least in the repetition of the epithet. It may be pertinent to note that the horticultural Exposition de St. Petersburg in 1869 had been attended by three Belgians, including one actually from the Linden garden (Anon. in Gartenfl. 16: 12. 1869). This would suggest that these names were not truly independent, and that André was almost certainly fully aware of the earlier publication of the name by Regel. Replying from St. Petersburg (Ender in Gartenfl. 22: 153. 1872), the argument was continued, and it was stated that in fact the Belgian plant in the Linden establishment had actually come from St Petersburg, and it was repeated that, after all, this plant had been introduced only by Maximowicx. In England the same species of bamboo was named in a truly independent fashion as Arundinaria auricoma Mitford in Bamboo Garden: 101. 1896. No types have ever been cited for any of these names. All were described from living plants. No original material is extant for André’s name at GENT (Goetghebeur, pers. comm.), nor apparently for Regel’s name at LE.