Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31)
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F2587A8-7D06-3B36-FF6E-FCEDFE22AE8C |
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Felipe |
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Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31) |
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6. Ceropegia pusilla Wight & Arnott (1834: 31) View in CoL .
Type:— INDIA. Tamil Nadu: Neelgherries (Nilgiri), s.d., Wight cat. n. 1514 (lectotype E-00179559!, here designated).
Distribution:— India [endemic and rare (Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu)].
Notes:—Wight &Arnott (1834) described Ceropegia pusilla based on two gatherings from Neelgherries (Nilgiri), Wight cat. n. 1514 and Wallich asclep. no. 7. Of these, only one specimen of the former, E-00179559, is extant and is chosen here as the lectotype. The gathering Wight cat. n. 1932 with four specimens —one each at M (M-0175136), K (K-000857818), P (P-03899239), and S (S12-11997)—mentioned as isotypes by Ansari (1984) and Huber (1957) is not cited in protologue.
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