Cycad Names | Cycas darshii R.C.Srivast. & Jana

Cycas darshii R.C.Srivast. & Jana [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO]

First published in: Indian J. Pl. Sci. [Jaipur] 3(2): 151-153, t. II. (2014).

Nomenclatural Type Information
Collector and Number: R.C. Srivastava cy 202
Locality: India, West Bengal, cultivated at Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Calcutta.
Type Location(s): H—CAL
Nomenclature notes: Described from cultivated plants in Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Calcutta. Provenance unknown but reported as 'perhaps introduced from Andaman & Nicobar Islands'. Considered similar but distinct from Cycas rumphii Miq. in the protologue description, but treated here as a nomen dubium due to a lack of descriptive and diagnostic characters combined with the unknown provenance of the cultivated material from which the type was collected. Sporophyll depicted in protologue is most similar to that of Cycas thouarsii (A.J. Lindstrom, pers. comm).

This name is considered a synonym of Cycas sphaerica Roxb.

Synonymy Notes: Synonymy under C. sphaerica following Singh & Misra 2020 in Indian Journal of Forestry 43(1), pp.46-57, 2020 .