Saussurea spatulifolia Franch., 1888

Jibran, Muhammad, Idrees, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhiyong, 2023, Notes on the typification of fourteen names published by A. R. Franchet in Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae), Adansonia (3) 45 (8), pp. 115-139 : 131

Saussurea spatulifolia Franch.

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Journal de Botanique (Morot) 2: 338 (1888).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — China. Yunnan: in rupibus regionis altissimae tractus Likiang Suesschan , alt. 4500 m, 14.VIII.1886, J.M. Delavay 2101 (lecto-, P[P00602912]!; isolecto-, P[P00602913]!).

REMARKS

S. spatulifolia was described by Franchet (1888) who cited one collection (Delavay 2121) as type in the protologue, without indicating the herbaria where the specimen was deposited. Lipschitz (1962) cited TYPUS: (Delavay 2101), in P [first-step], which is considered an inadvertent lectotyification according to Art. 7.11 of ICN ( Turland et al. 2018). We located two duplicate specimens in P (barcode 00602912-00602913). According to ICN, Arts 9.6, and 40 Note 1 ( Turland et al. 2018), none of them can be treated as holotype, but should be regarded as syntypes. We designate here the blooming specimen “ Delavay 2101 ” in P (P00602912) as the lectotype [second-step], in accordance with Art. 9.17 (ICN; Turland et al. 2018), since it is morphologically complete and well-preserved specimen that displays all the morphological diagnostic traits in agreement with the protologue.

Figures

FIG. 11. — Lectotype of Saussurea spatulifolia Franch., Delavay 2101 (P00602912).