Anaphalis subdecurrens (DC.) Gamble

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 subdecurrens (DC.) Gamble

In Flora of the Presidency of Madras 2: 695 ( Gamble 1921). — Basionym: Gnaphalium subdecurrens DC. , in Wight, Contributions to the Botany of India: 21 ( De Candolle 1834) ( Fig. 3B ).

TYPE CITATION. — “In montibus Dindygul, Wight cat. n. 1469 ”.

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Tamil Nadu, Dindygul hills , s.d., Wight cat. n. 1469 (lecto-, E [ E00528784 image]! ; isolecto-, E [ E00414233 image, E00414247 image]!), K ( K000898988 image, K000898989 image, K000898991 image]!, NY [ NY00169546 image]!, P [ P01816383 image, P01816384 image]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPES. — India. Pulneys, s.d., Wight s.n. (syn-, MH [ MH00007088 ]!) ; s.l., s.d., Wall. n. 2947 B, Herb. Wightianum, (syn-, K [ K001118247 image]!).

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

REMARKS

In the protologue of Gnaphalium subdecurrens , De Candolle (1834) mentioned the type as ‘In montibus Dindygul by Wight cat. n. 1469”. Gamble (1921) transferred Gnaphalium subdecurrens to the genus Anaphalis DC. and named as A. subdecurrens (DC.) Gamble.We have traced eleven specimens from different herbaria, three at E (E00414233, E00414247, E00528784), three at K (K000898988, K000898989, K000898991), two at P (P01816383, P01816384), one at New York Botanical Garden (NY00169546) and one at MH (MH00007088). Among these, the specimen, E00528784 which is complete and better preserved is designated here as the lectotype of the name G. subdecurrens .

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.