Sabdariffa splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) McLay & R.L.Barrett, 2025

Sabdariffa splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) McLay & R.L.Barrett View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Fig. 28 c, d View Fig .)

Hibiscus splendens C.Fraser ex Graham , Edinburgh N. Phil. J. 175 (1830); Abelmoschus splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) Walp., Rep. Bot. View in CoL Syst . 1: 309 (1842); Malvaviscus splendens (C.Fraser ex Graham) Regel, Gartenflora 6: 77 (1857). Type citation: ‘…from New Holland seeds sent by Mr Fraser in November 1828 …’ Type: Cultivated, Edinburgh (holo: K 000659876 (photo E 00279411)).

Descriptions and illustrations

Graham (1830 a, p. 175); Graham (1830 b, t. 3025); Loddiges (1832, t. 1835); Bentham (1863, p. 213); Bailey (1899, pp. 127–128); Hochreutiner (1900, p. 120); Wilson (1974, p. 165, fig. 1, 16); Wilson and Craven (1995, p. 445); Spencer (1997, p. 383, fig.); Mitchell and Norris (2000, p. 329); Cooper and Cooper (2004, p. 278, fig.); Wilson and Lally (2022).

Typification

Although no specific specimen was cited, only a single collection is available matching the protologue and this specimen is clearly the material used for the illustration in Graham, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 57: t. 3025 (1830) [BHL], noted to be the first recorded flowering in England. As only a single specimen can be identified, this is accepted as a holotype. This matching specimen was overlooked by Wilson (1974) who designated an earlier collection by Fraser as a neotype: [New South Wales:] Hastings River, N. Holl., 1825, C. Fraser s.n. (neotype: E), that was a superfluous designation given that original material is extant, as noted by Lauener and Paul (1985) and Wilson and Craven (1995).

Distribution

Queensland and New South Wales, Australia .