Anaphalis travancorica W.W.Sm.

Murugan, Perumal, Murugan, Chidambaram & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 43 (17), pp. 197-204 : 202

Anaphalis travancorica W.W.Sm.

Records of the Botanical Survey of India 4: 284 ( Smith 1911) ( Fig.3C ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Peninsular India: Devicolam, Travancore, alt. 7000 feet, A. Meebold 13328; High Range, Travancore, Bourdillon 36 ”.

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Kerala, Travancore, Devicolam , 7000 feet (2133.6 m), X.1910, A. Meebold 13328 (lecto-, CAL [ CAL0000016858 image]! ; isolecto-, CAL [ CAL0000016859 image]!, K [ K000899053 image]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India. Kerala, Travancore, High Range , 18.II.1901, Bourdillon 36 (syn-, CAL [ CAL0000016860 image]!) .

DISTRIBUTION. — India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), endemic.

REMARKS

Smith (1911) described Anaphalis travancorica on the basis of specimens collected from Travancore by two authors namely, A. Meebold 13328 and Bourdillon 36. We have traced four herbarium specimens from different herbaria, three at CAL (CAL0000016858, CAL0000016859, CAL0000016860) and one at K (K000899053). Of these, the better one from CAL with barcode number CAL0000016858 is designated here as the lectotype of A. travancorica .

Figures

FIG. 3. — A, Lectotype of Anaphalis oblonga DC. (P01816380), © Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris; B, lectotype of Gnaphalium subdecurrens DC. (E00528784); C, lectotype of Anaphalis travancorica W.W.Sm. (CAL0000016858), © Central National Herbarium,Howrah; D, lectotype of Gnaphalium wightianum DC. (E00414229); B, D, © The board of trustees of Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh.