Synonyms

(List may be incomplete)

• Heterotypic
  • Terminalia alata B.Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp.: 379 (1821); not accepted by Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017) [cited as Terminalia elliptica]
    • Typus:
      • Holotypus: B. Heyne s.n. (lost)
      • Neotypus: designated by Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017)
    • Type locality:
      • Holotypus: "India orientalis".
  • Terminalia crenulata Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp.: 380 (1821); not accepted by Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017) [cited as Terminalia elliptica]
    • Typus:
      • Holotypus: B. Heyne s.n. (lost)
      • Neotypus: designated by Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017)
    • Type locality:
      • Holotypus: "India orientalis".
  • Pentaptera crenulata (Roth) DC., Prodr. 3: 15 (1828)
  • Pentaptera tomentosa Roxb. [Cat. Calc.: 34, nom. nud.] ex DC., Prodr. 3: 14 (1828), nom. illeg. nom. superfl.
    • Note: de Candolle cited T. alata in the protologue, thus this name can be regarded as a new one with illegal and superfluous replacement; see also Mabberley in Manilal (ed.), Bot. Hist. Hortus Malabaricus: 107 (1980).
    • Typus:
      • Lectotypus: Wallich s.n. ([June 1818]; G [​[http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=327721&lang=en G00470811]^(JSTOR)], designated by Chakrabarty & Kumar 2017: 298)
      • Syntypus: Wallich 164 ([1815]; G [​[http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id=327719&lang=en G00470800]^(JSTOR)]), Wallich 3978 et Wallich 3978 G (CAL).
    • Type locality: India. Hort. Bot. Calcutt.
  • Pentaptera macrocarpa Wall., Numer. List: n. 3982 (1831), nom. nud.; cited under T. tomentosa var. crenulata by Clarke (1878)
    • Original material: K-W {K001117830^(JSTOR), K001117831^(JSTOR)}.
    • Locality: [Burma.] Yenangheum[​Yenangyaung] ad mont. Prome[​Pyay].
  • Pentaptera coriacea Roxb., [Hort. Bengal.: 34 (1814), nom. nud.], Fl. Ind. 2: 438 (1832)
    • Type locality: India. [Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu?:] "[T]he inland mountains of Coromandel, chiefly those of the western parts."
  • Terminalia tomentosa (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn., Cat. Ind. Pl.: 63 (1833), nom. illeg. nom. superfl.; not accepted by Chen & Turland (2007) [cited as Terminalia alata], Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017) [cited as Terminalia elliptica]
  • Terminalia coriacea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 315 (1834); not accepted by Chakrabarty & Kumar (2017) [cited as Terminalia elliptica]
  • Terminalia tomentosa var. coriacea (Roxb.) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India [J.D. Hooker] 2: 448 (1878)
  • Terminalia tomentosa var. crenulata (Roth) C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India [J.D. Hooker] 2: 448 (1878)

Primary references

• Willdenow, C.L. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta. Tomus 4. Pars 2. Pp. 634–1157. Impensis G. C. Nauk, Berolini [Berlin]. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. 

Additional references

• Roxburgh, W. 1814. Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta. Serampore. BHL Reference page. 
• Roth, A.W. & Heyne, B. 1821. Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae orientalis: Ex collectione doct. Benj. Heynii. iv + 412 pp, Halberstadii, Sumptibus H. Vogleri. BHL Reference page. 
• De Candolle, A.P. 1828. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum, specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. Pars 3: Sistens Calyciflorarum ordines XXVI. 494 pp. Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis [Paris]. BHL Reference page. 
• Roxburgh, W. (†) 1832. Flora Indica; or, descriptions of Indian Plants. by the late William Roxburgh. Serampore: W. Thacker & Co. Calcutta; Parbury, Allen & Co., London. Vol. 2. 691 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Wight, R. & Walker-Arnott, G.A. 1834. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: containing abridged descriptions of the plants found in the peninsula of British India, arranged according to the natural system. Vol. I. XXXVII+480 pp. Parbury, Allen, & Co., London. BHL Reference page. 
• Wallich, N. 1828–1849. A Numerical List of Dried Specimens of plants in the Museum of the Honl. East India Company, which have been supplied by Dr. Wallich, superintendent of the botanic garden at Calcutta. London. BHL Reference page. 
• Hooker, J.D., assisted by various botanists. 1876–1879. The Flora of British India Vol. 2. Sabiaceae to Cornaceae. 792 pp. London: L. Reeve. BHL Reference page. 
• Gangopadhyay, M. & Chakrabarty, T. 1992. Notes on Terminalia L. (Combretaceae). Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 16(3): 601–603. Reference page. 
• Chen, J. & Turland, N.J. 2007. Terminalia. Pp. 309, 310 in Wu, Zh.Y. , Raven, P.H. & Hong, D.Y. (eds.), Flora of China. Volume 13: Clusiaceae through Araliaceae. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, ISBN 978-1-930723-59-7. efloras Reference page. 
• Chakrabarty, T. & Sampath Kumar, V. 2017. Terminalia elliptica (Combretaceae) is not conspecific with T. arjuna. Phytotaxa 295(3): 297–300. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.3.12 Reference page. 
• Chakrabarty, T., Krishna, G. & Rasingam, L. 2019. Taxonomic notes on Indian Terminalia (Combretaceae). Plant Science Today 6(3): 281–286. DOI: 10.14719/pst.2019.6.3.539 Reference page.  [see page 285.]

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Terminalia elliptica in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 June 3. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Terminalia elliptica. Published online. Accessed: 3 June 2022.