Anaphalis lawii (Hook.f.) 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 : 198

Anaphalis lawii (Hook.f.) Gamble

In the Flora of the Presidency of Madras 2: 696 ( Gamble 1921). — Basionym: Anaphalis oblonga DC. var. lawii Hook.f. , Flora of British India 3: 283 ( Hooker 1881) ( Fig. 1D ).

TYPE CITATION. — “Bababooden hills by Law; Mercara by Hohenacker”.

LECTOTYPE (HERE DESIGNATED). — India. Karnataka, Chikmagaluru District, Bababooden hills ( Baba Budan ), s.d., Law s.n. (lecto-, K [ K000898998 image]! ; isolecto-, CAL [ CAL0000016864 image]!; K [ K000898997 image]!).

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

REMARKS

In the protologue of Anaphalis oblonga var. lawii , J.D. Hooker (1881) cited the type information as ‘Bababooden hills by Law and Mercara by Hohenacker’.Later Gamble (1921) elevated this variety to species rank and named it A. lawii (Hook.f.) Gamble . We have traced three herbarium sheets from two herbaria, two at K (K000898997, K000898998) and one at Central National Herbarium (CAL0000016864). Of these, the herbarium K000898998 holds the dissected flower parts and a line drawing of the achene by Gamble, which is designated here as the lectotype.

Figures

FIG. 1. — A, Lectotype of Anaphalis beddomeiHook.f.(K000898987); B, lectotype of Anaphalis bourneiFyson (K000899046); C, lectotype of Gnaphalium ellipticum DC. (K000898995); D, lectotype of Anaphalis oblonga DC. var. lawii Hook.f. (K000898998). © The board of trustees of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.