Saussurea virgata Franch., 1894

Jibran, Muhammad, Idrees, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhiyong, 2023, Notes on the typification of fourteen names published by A. R. Franchet in Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 45 (8), pp. 115-139 : 136

Saussurea virgata Franch.

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 340 (1888).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan, dans les prairies humides au pied du Tsang-Chan, alt. 2800 m, 25.IX.1888, J.M. Delavay 3617 (lecto-, P[P00602943]!; isolecto-, P[P00602944, P00602945]!).

REMARKS

Franchet (1888) described S. virgata without designating any specimen as holotype, but cited two collections (Delavay 3617 and Delavay 3201) in the protologue, but, since then, no author has designated a lectotype, even inadvertently (Art. 7.11 of ICN, Turland et al. 2018). Six original materials were traced in P, three of them “ Delavay 3617 ” in P (P00602928, P00602929, P00602942), and three of them “ Delavay 3201 ” in P (P00602943, P00602944, P00602945). According to Art. 9.6 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018), all these collections should be regarded as syntypes. All the original materials in P bear the informations “ Syntype S. virgata Franch. ” as well as Delavay annotations, from which lectotype could be chosen (Art. 9.12 of ICN, Turland et al. 2018). Herein, we designate the sheet “ Delavay 3617 ” in P (P00602943) as the lectotype. The selected herbarium specimen is well preserved and comprises a stem, many leaves with numerous flowers and inflorescence which fully agree with both the description and the current application of the name.

Figures

FIG. 15. — Lectotype of Saussurea virgata Franch., Delavay 3617 (P00602943).