7. Chionanthus microbotrys (Kerr) Green (1996: 768). ≡ Linociera microbotrys Kerr (1938: 130, as “ microbotrya ”).

TYPE: — THAILAND. Saraburi: Muak Lek, evergreen scrub, ca. 200 m, flowers whitish, 30 August 1924, A.F.G. Kerr 9060 (lectotype, designated by Green [1996: 768]: K: K000978789 photo!; isolectotypes: BK; BM: BM000997615 photo!; P: P00640645 photo!). (Fig. 4)

Images of lectotype and isolectotypes available at

http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000978789

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/4d108c89-5738-4707-99c9-d23b9fc355ff

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00640645

Literature: — Green (2000b: 283, Fig. 15), Newman et al. (2007: 248), Cho et al. (2016: 141), Jin et al. (2016: 160).

Etymology: —The specific epithet “ microbotrys ” apparently refers to short inflorescences of this species, a characteristic indicated by Kerr (1938) as a distinctive one from C. ramiflorus .