Anaphalis lawii

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’.LaterGamble (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.