typification

Type: AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND, Te Ika a Maui / North Island, West Auckland, Manukau Harbour, near Huia, Spraggs Monument, 37.007904 S, 174.590001 E, 51 m a.s.l., P.J. de Lange 15067 & F.J.T. de Lange, 6 Oct 2021. Holotype: AK386153 A & B; Isotypes: NSW, UNITEC12920.

Schmid, L.M.H.; de Lange, P.J.; Marshall, A.J. 2023: Leptospermum hoipolloi (Myrtaceae), a new species from Aotearoa / New Zealand, segregated from Leptospermum scoparium s. l. Ukrainian Botanical Journal 80(3): 173–198.

Etymology

The epithet "hoipolloi" is the Greek term for ‘the many’ (derived from two Greek words ‘hoi’ [definite article, ói in Greek] and ‘polloi’: οἱ πολλοί) in English is usually taken to refer to ‘the masses; common people’ or even ‘rabble’ (Deverson, Kennedy, 2005: 516; Duretto, 1999). It is used here to reflect the fact that the new species, which is extremely common, has previously been regarded as part of a common, variable, species Leptospermum scoparium. In its English usage the epithet is plural and should be treated here as indeclinable.

editorial

The authors do not deal adequately with the published genetic variation in Buys et al. (2019) and Koot et al. (2022) which consider genetic variation to be geographic, not taxonomic.