Parnassia wightiana Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35)

Shu, Yumin, Yu, Huiying, Mu, Xianyun & Zhang, Zhixiang, 2017, Checklist and typification of Parnassia (Celastraceae), Phytotaxa 309 (1), pp. 1-22 : 6

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scientific name

Parnassia wightiana Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35)
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Parnassia wightiana Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35) View in CoL

TYPE:— INDIA. Wight 116 (lectotype designated here: K000739468 ; isolectotypes: E00174108 , E00174109 , E00174110 , K000739464 , GZU000100142 About GZU , P00709377 )

= Parnassia ornata Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35) View in CoL Parnassia wightiana var. ornata (Wallich ex Wight & Arnott) Drude (1875: 315) View in CoL

TYPE:— INDIA. Wallich Catalogue n. 1247 (lectotype designated here: K001112512 ; isolectotypes: BM000947004 , BM000600011 , E00174105 , E00174106 , E00174107 , GZU000100104 About GZU , K000739462 , K000739463 , L0281539 , NY00186148 , P00709374 , P00709375 , P00709376 )

= Parnassia schmidii Zenker (1835: 3)

TYPE:— INDIA. Blue Mountain, Utacamund. Schmid s.n. (holotype: JE n.v.)

= Parnassia nana Griffith (1854: 427) View in CoL

TYPE:— AFGHANISTAN. Khasyah mountains, 5 November 1835, Bogapani s.n. (holotype: not located)

= Parnassia wightiana var. brachyloba Franchet (1897: 259) View in CoL

TYPE:— CHINA. Chongqing, Chengkou, Touan-tchen, Ta-lin-hien, 2500 m, 8 August 1896, Farges 1375 (lectotype designated here: P00709371 ; isolectotypes: P00709372 , P00709373 , P05556418 , KUN1230259 About KUN )

= Parnassia wightiana var. flavida Franchet (1897: 259) View in CoL

TYPE:— CHINA. Chongqing, Chengkou, Touan-tchen, Ta-lin-hien, August 1896, Farges s.n. (lectotype designated here: P 06392732) = Parnassia yiliangensis T.C. Ku (1987: 48)

TYPE:— CHINA. Yunnan, Yiliang , 1850 m, 13 September 1972, Orientaliboreali-yunnan Exped. 597 (holotype: PE01863976 ; isotype: KUN0437594 About KUN )

= Parnassia simaoensis Y. Y. Qian (1997: 305) View in CoL

TYPE:— CHINA. Yunnan, Simao , 1400 m, 21 October 1987, Y. Y. Qian 1461 (holotype: NEFI n.v.; isotype: KUN1216621 About KUN )

Notes: Parnassia wightiana and P. ornata are based on manuscript names published by Wallich (1829) in his Numerical List without descriptions. Wight & Arnott (1834) provided the description of P. wightiana and cited two syntypes, Wallich Cat. n. 3755 and Wight 116, hence validating this name. We selected a completed and well-presented specimen K 000739468 (mounted with K 000739467 on one sheet, but belonging to different gatherings) as the lectotype of P. wightiana .

Some researchers ( Ku, 1987; Chuang, 2006; Adhikari & Akiyama, 2011) thought that P. ornata was formally described by Arnott (1837), while Nerkrassova (1927) noticed that this name had been validly published in the note of P. wightiana by Wight & Arnott (1834). In the protologue, they compared P. wightiana with P. ornata and stated: ‘ Perhaps this and P. ornata, Wall. ! L. n. 1247, may prove the same: in the latter, the petals have a much longer unguis which is nearly linear, and the lower part of their margin is cut into numerous pinnatifid segments, the divisions of which are long and capillary ’. This description meets Art. 38 of ICN, makes the name P. ornata validated, hence the correct author citation of it should be ‘Wallich ex Wight & Arnott’. Fourteen sheets of Wallich Catalogue n. 1247 have been found in herbaria BM, E, GZU, K, L, NY and P, and here we designated K 001112512 as the lectotype.

One collection, Farges 1375, from Chongqing was separated into Farges 1375 and Farges 1375bis. Based on these, two varieties of P. wightiana , namely, var. brachyloba and var. flavida were described. Five specimens of Farges 1375 were traced from P and KUN. Among them, a well-presented one ( P 00709362) with a note about the collection information in Farges’ hand was selected as the lectotype of var. brachyloba . No specimens of Farges 1375bis have been found, but a specimen with barcode P 06392732 collected by Farges from Chongqing, had a label with a penciled note by Franchet: ‘ Parnassia wightiana Wall. v. flavida Franch. p. 259, B. Soc. B. Fr. 1897 ’. That means this sheet was studied by Franchet when he described this variety in 1897, it belongs to the original material, thus we selected it as the lectotype of var. flavida .

Sect. Fimbripetalum Drude (1875: 302)

Type: Parnassia foliosa Hooker & Thomson (1858: 79)

=Ser. Amoenae T. C. Ku (1987: 51)

Type: Parnassia amoena Diels (1900: 370)

=Ser. Rhombipetalae T. C. Ku (1993: 276)

Type: Parnassia rhombipetala B.L. Chai (1991: 374)

JE

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

Y

Yale University

NEFI

Northeastern Forestry University

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

L

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

BM

Bristol Museum

E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

GZU

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

NY

William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden

KUN

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

C

University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Celastrales

Family

Parnassiaceae

Genus

Parnassia

Loc

Parnassia wightiana Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35)

Shu, Yumin, Yu, Huiying, Mu, Xianyun & Zhang, Zhixiang 2017
2017
Loc

Parnassia simaoensis Y. Y. Qian (1997: 305)

Qian, Y. Y. 1997: )
1997
Loc

Parnassia wightiana var. brachyloba

Franchet, A. R. 1897: )
1897
Loc

Parnassia wightiana var. flavida

Franchet, A. R. 1897: )
1897
Loc

Parnassia nana

Griffith, W. 1854: )
1854
Loc

Parnassia schmidii

Zenker, J. C. 1835: )
1835
Loc

Parnassia wightiana Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35)

Wight, R. & Arnott, G. A. W. 1834: )
1834
Loc

Parnassia ornata Wallich ex Wight & Arnott (1834: 35)

Drude, O. 1875: )
Wight, R. & Arnott, G. A. W. 1834: )
1834
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