''Elaeocarpus hedyosmus'' is a species of

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in the

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family used as a medicinal plant. It is one of three recently described species that is

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Taxonomic Revision

In 2001, botanist Sue Zmarzty revised the ''Elaeocarpus'' section of ''Elaeocarpus'' species found on southern

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and

. According to that revision, nine species are recognised, which includes three new species - ''E. hedyosmus'' Zmarzty, '' E. variabilis'' Zmarzty and '' E. taprobanicus'' Zmarzty. The revision also includes one new variety of the species ''E. serratus'' L. var. ''weibelii'' Zmarzty as well. ''Elaeocarpus hedyosmus'' is described through specimens previously considered to be ''E. amoenus'' sensu ''auctt.''. Original

syntype In biological nomenclature, a syntype is any one of two or more biological types that is listed in a description of a taxon where no holotype was designated. Precise definitions of this and related terms for types have been established as part of ...

s of '' E. amoenus'' included three different species, and in the revision by Meijer's in 1995, lectotypification means that this name must be restricted to a distinct, less well-known species that is endemic to island of

. '' Elaeocarpus variabilis'' is described through specimens previously considered to be ''E. glandulosus'' sensu ''auctt.''. The species was also synonymized as '' E. oblongus'' sensu ''auct.'' previously, until it gives the full species validity. This suggested the species '' E. glandulosus'' must be applied to a northern species in

and also dry parts of

. It may be probably '' E. hygrophilus'' described in Merrill's in 1951 by his observations.

References

hedyosmus Endemic flora of Sri Lanka {{Oxalidales-stub