Lophopogon kingii Hooker (1896: 149)

Tiwari, Arjun Prasad, Gavade, Sandip & Mujaffar, Shaikh, 2017, Lectotypification of Lophopogon kingii (Poaceae, Andropogoneae), Phytotaxa 296 (3), pp. 295-296 : 295

Lophopogon kingii Hooker (1896: 149)

Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Monghir , October 1894, Mokim 1408 ( K barcode K000943467 !, isolectotypes CAL barcodes CAL0000002378 !, CAL0000002379 !, CAL0000002380 !, DD No. 45080!, K barcode K000943468 !), Fig. 1 .

Notes:—In the protologue Hooker (1896) cited a single gathering “Behar; at Monghir, Herb. Hort. Calcutt”. Sur (2004) cited specimens kept in CAL and DD as isotypes but these must all be treated as syntypes (Arts. 9.5 and 40 Note 1 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012).

We traced six specimens at CAL (barcodes CAL0000002378, CAL0000002379, CAL0000002380), DD (No. 45080) and K (barcodes K000943467, K000943468), which can be considered original material according to Art. 9.3 of the ICN ( McNeill et al. 2012). The specimen housed at K (barcode K000943467) is the most complete, has drawings of floral dissected parts on the herbarium sheet and the original annotations by Hooker. So, it is designated here as lectotype for the name L. kingii Hook.f.

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FIGURE 1. Lectotype of Lophopogon kingii Hook.f.at K (barcode K000943467).[© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Reproduced with the consent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew”]