Reinstating Leea robusta Roxb. (Leeaceae)

Abstract

Leea macrophylla Roxb. ex Hornem., L. robusta Roxb. and L. venkobarowii Gamb., which have been considered to be conspecific by Ridsdale (1974), were subjected to a revised taxonomic study using live specimens and herbarium material. The latter two were found to be so closely similar that they are treated here as conspecific under the priorable name Leea robusta. However, L. macrophylla differed from L. robusta, as treated here, significantly in several different morphological features. So, L. robusta
is reinstated here, as a distinct species.