Cornus kousa var. angustata, a popular evergreen Chinese dogwood has gone through a number of proposed name changes, the latest (and best in my opinion) being Cornus elliptica.
A proposal to reject the old name Cynoxlyon elliptica in favor of the more popular epithet angustata was offered by Y.F. Deng in 2003 but the nomenclatural committee did not approve this. Thereafter Hui Yu has proposed in this paper...
http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb43-free/anb43-315.pdf
that the evergreen species be called Dendrobenthamia elliptica (Pojark.) H. Yu
Pictures of the species, a chart on separating it from C. capitata, and a discussion of it's cultivars occurs here in the NOD...
http://www.raretrees.org/cornang3.html
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