Anaphalis marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke

Murugan, Perumal, Murugan, Chidambaram & Karthigeyan, Kaliyamurthy, 2021, Typification of twelve names in the genus Anaphalis DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 43 (17), pp. 197-204 : 200

Anaphalis marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke

In the Compositae Indicae : 110 ( Clarke 1876). — Basionym: Gnaphalium marcescens Wight, Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 3: 10 ( Wight 1846) ( Fig. 2B ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Neilgherries.”

LECTOTYPE ( HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Tamil Nadu, Neeilgherries ( Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. ( lecto-, MH [ MH00007084 ]!).

RESIDUAL SYNTYPE. — India. Tamil Nadu, Neilgherries ( Nilgiri District), s.d., Wight s.n. ( syn-, K [ K000899039 image]!).

DISTRIBUTION. — India ( Kerala and Tamil Nadu); Sri Lanka and China

REMARKS

Gnaphalium marcescens was originally described by Wight (1846) from Neeilgherries. Later Clarke (1876) in his book ‘ Compositae Indicae’ transferred G. marcescens to the genus Anaphalis DC. and named it as A. marcescens (Wight) C.B.Clarke. We have traced two specimens from two herbaria, one at MH (MH00007084) and one at K (K000899039). Of these, the sheet with barcode MH00007084 matches well with the illustration of the protologue by Wight. Hence it is designated here as the lectotype for the name G. marcescens .

Figures

FIG. 2. — A, Isolectotype of Helichrysum leptophyllum DC. (K000899022); B, lectotype of Gnaphalium marcescens Wight (MH00007084), © Madras Herbarium, Coimbatore; C, lectotype of Anaphalis meeboldii W.W.Sm. (CAL0000016862), © Central National Herbarium, Howrah; D, isolectotype of Gnaphalium neelgherryanum DC. (K000899041); A, D, © The board of trustess of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.